Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winding up their meticulous case last week in Los Angeles after nine days of testimony, the date at the head of the diary's page - May 18, 1968 - underlined the state's contention that the killer who struck down Kennedy almost three weeks later had conceived his act in malice and with long-formulated forethought. Sirhan, distraught that his most intimate secrets would be in the hands of strangers, treated Judge Herbert V. Walker, the police and his own lawyers to some bitter disclosures...
...that size you have a civilized community, one without a commuter problem and still small enough that you can fight city hall," he says. In Manhattan last week, the newly formed Committee for National Land Development Policy, a group of builders, bankers and sociologists, called for "an industrial homestead act," under which the Federal Government would provide free land to newtown developers, just as it once gave land to farmers and railroads...
...Recent discoveries have severely jolted scholars of urban school systems. Academics spent the last decade arguing that improving the environment of black children with infusions of money and material would bring them up to educational parity with whites. Out of this academic barrage emerged the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which has poured billions of dollars into compensatory education for the disadvantaged in urban schools. Now, four years later, the results are trickling in, and they constitute a near disaster for backers of the environmental approach to urban school problems. "There's no place in the country," says...
...derives its power to approve or deny proposed air fares from the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. A crucial section of that act, and the one that Youth Fare appeared to violate, specifices: "No air carrier . . . shall make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage or subject any particular person . . . or description of traffic in air transportation to any unjust discrimination . . . " (Italics added...
...pushing the CAB. On February 19, Senator Magnuson, Chairman of both the Senate Commerce Committee and its important Aviation Subcommittee, wrote CAB Chairman John Crooker. Magnuson asked the CAB to retain Youth Fare on "national interest" grounds--for which, conceivably, justification may be found in the 1958 Federal Aviation Act. The Magnuson letter stresses the role of Youth Fare in making possible the broad formal and informal education "so essential in our modern society." Congressman Olsen, in addition, has initiated a national campaign to flood the CAB with letters from students urging retention...