Word: abolitionism
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The story is a distillation of Texan political mores, which permit the closest of friends to castigate one another on the hustings and get drunk together when the votes are in. Though Governor John Bowden Connally Jr. considers Lyndon Baines Johnson his finest friend, he has leveled bitter criticism at...
One of the biggest imponderables in this year's elections is the impact of the South's new Negro voters, 325,000 of whom have been registered in the five states principally affected by the civil rights movement. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, followed this year by the...
Abolition of the requirement can be justified only if Harvard does away with all academic requirements. Languages are as much a part of General Education as the Natural Sciences or Humanities. The college now asks suprisingly little of entering students and there is no logical basis for the inordinate attack...
Spontaneity there was, as well as some solid thinking for the future. With a total area of 4,000,000 sq. mi. and a population of 100 million, the eleven nations would do well to establish a regional economic federation. In their discussions, the leaders agreed to work toward an...
"The adversary system," said Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark in a speech to Houston lawyers and law students, "operates on the basis that effective representation of opposing interests is a better lie detector than any machine." Unhappily, he added, U.S. law schools have so neglected trial training that "from where...