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There were two meetings of civil rights groups this weekend, on Friday the 23rd, and another Saturday the 24th, after the speech Mr. Hoses Williams delivered on SCOPE. SCOPE, as you know, is the proposed summer project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
...drafting were Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted a section abolishing poll taxes in local elections too. Katzenbach advised against it, since the Supreme Court is expected soon to rule on a suit involving Virginia's poll...
Born. To Georg Adenauer, 33, Bonn notary public, youngest of former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's four sons, and Ulla-Britta Adenauer, 31, his Swedish wife: a son, their third, thus making der Alte a grandfather for the 24th time; in Bonn...
...repealed the 18th. Fastest of all: the twelfth (separate electoral vote for President and Vice President), which in 1804 set the record of 187 days. Slowest: the 22nd (limiting Presidents to two terms) which took almost four years to get the nod in 1951. Newest of all: the 24th (barring poll taxes in federal elections), ratified 13 months ago. The U.S. Constitution is so hedged against change, yet so open to new interpretation, that lawyers and scholars favor amending it only in extreme circumstances. Presidential disability may well be such a circumstance, but as Chief Justice Earl Warren cautions...
...honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree was conferred upon the President by college President Very Reverend Raymond J. Swords, S.J. It was the 24th honorary degree Johnson has received, the fifth within the past several weeks...