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...that "national health and safety" required an end to the strikes. The Government was never refused. During the current dock strike, the Attorney General contended that the failure of 200 Chicago longshoremen to load $75 million worth of corn and soybeans for export imperiled the national economy. Federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz found the Government's case for an injunction "far less reasoned" than required. "Some harm or threat of injury is regrettably a natural, indispensable element of any strike," he said in the first denial ever of a Taft-Hartley cooling-off injunction. "However, it is the very...
...Abraham S. Silver, one of the American Civil Liberties Union attorneys presenting the students' case, said yesterday that the court would have to decide whether a state-owned college may bar an organization with violent political tendencies and whether an organization may be barred without sufficient proof of its violent intentions...
...been called "the hottest mimeograph machine in town," and sometimes he is led to excesses, as when he suggested earlier this fall that he would be willing to "crawl on my belly" to the Paris Peace Talks to gain release of U.S. P.O.W.s. More recently, together with Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, he called in the Senate for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and for Irish reunification, a proposal that earned him the distinction of being condemned by the British Prime Minister...
...parallel path to the future could be the enactment of a farsighted bill that has been proposed for the last two years by Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Although it has twice been defeated, on this year's vote it was supported by every potential Democratic presidential nominee in the Senate. After four years of pilot testing and planning, Ribicoff's plan would give every metropolitan area?North or South?a deadline of ten years to make minority representation in each of its schools equal to at least half the percentage of minority-group students in the area...
...players jockey for state votes by offering ambassadorships, Cabinet posts or even money to rivals, then ballot to select a candidate. Next comes the election and finally, for advanced players, there are a whole new set of rules that allow them to toy with hypothetical scenarios that can pit Abraham Lincoln, for instance, against George Wallace. Another one: what if Nixon were to decline renomination and the Republicans, with a dark-horse candidate, had to enter the campaign against a Democratic party united behind Teddy Kennedy...