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...discrimination. Soon after the boycott started, and when it became clearly effective, the United League vastly expanded the number and scope of their demands. Not only did they want Hanna and the other Byhalia policeman indicted for murder, they also demanded representation of blacks on the town board of aldermen, the county supervisor's board, and the local electric utility; an improved local sewage system; the addition of blacks to the police force; action to attract a doctor to the town; and increased employment opportunities for blacks in local businesses...
...Thompson Jr., 38, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has done more to dismantle Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's political machine than all his predecessors combined. In less than three years he has convicted former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett, three aldermen, two police captains and more than a dozen other state and local officials, most of them Democrats. A strapping (6 ft. 6 in.) Chicago native and ex-law professor who describes himself as a "middle-of-the-road" Republican, "Big Jim" Thompson is the favorite choice of Cook County Republicans...
...Heady with victory, the army was obviously waiting for the chance to bring a new-found sense of morality to Uruguay's larger problems. It came last month, when a Montevideo paper documented charges of corruption against the city council. The army immediately joined the fray, demanding the aldermen be punished. When President Bordaberry fired his Defense Minister, who had supported the army's demands, the battle lines were drawn...
...Antitrust law is being invoked by two Chicago aldermen in a $3 billion air-pollution suit against General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. An estimated 60% of Chicago's air pollution is caused by automobile exhaust, and Lawyer Jerome Torshen plans to attack "the heart of the problem." He hopes to use the results of a special federal investigation prepared by the Justice Department for a similar antitrust suit in California, which charged that the auto companies conspired to keep anti-pollution devices off their cars. The Government recently allowed the companies to settle that case out of court after...
...historical study is human consciousness. His concern is not for the great systembuilders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the libraries of second-rate thinkers. For example, he ransacked the effects of the Puritan ministers and aldermen for evidence for his major work, Religion and the American Mind. The Idea has for Heimert a life of its own, conditioned by the physical furniture of reality but also conditioning it. He has little patience with historians who insist that "objective reality" exist, that it alone determines human action...