Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy strategy plainly requires as broad a Southern voting franchise as possible. The National Committee, at "the request of local districts," is cooperating in registration drives throughout the South. Both the Administration and the National Committee are urging state legislatures to adopt the anti-poll tax amendment to the Constitution. Attorney General Kennedy's trip was part of the overall effort. By knocking down the barriers against Negro voting, the Administration can not only help strengthen Negro rights, but-if the attempt pays off-make the South's Democratic Party more to the New Frontier's liking...
...contrasting methods of industrialization employed by China and India, and according to Snow's statistics, China appears to be well in front. Unless, he argues, the United States wishes to alienate every nation that prefers China's techniques for making rapid progress to India's terrible poverty, it must adopt a far friendlier attitude toward social revolutions, even if they are guided by Communists...
Last week, in a statewide referendum, the citizens of Michigan voted to adopt the new constitution, and its victory seemed a victory for Romney as well...
...speech at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Conant envisioned a nationwide adviso ry council, approved by Congress, to be called the "Standing Group on Educational Strategy." Chosen by state legislatures, its 50-odd members would develop education "guidelines" on a national basis and persuade state lawmakers to adopt them. Chairman of the group would be a newly created U.S. Secretary of Education with Cabinet standing. The Secretary would serve as a buffer between the states and Congress, which in turn would appropriate federal funds for state spending on his recommendation...
...clerical puritanism is not an issue today, and it is indeed very clear that Babe did not regard the question as his chief concern. He and Guzzetti make a simpler use of the medieval setting, for they adopt it to capitalize upon the mystic aura of the medieval church, upon the color of the liturgy's communalism and ritual. Borrowed to produce its very immediate awe, the opera's medievalism is a facile expedient for proclaiming the profundity of the drama; by the last scene the sections in more obvious liturgical setting have become annoyingly irrelevant. The two writers...