Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ball. While direct campaign contributions by companies in federal elections are banned by the Corrupt Practices Act-as his fellow Senators know well-legal loopholes allow corporations to take expensive ads in political puff sheets, permit executives to donate to a political fund as "individuals." Last week the 17-member Senate Finance Committee-four of whose stalwarts are themselves up for re-election-passed a Williams-sponsored amendment to the Viet Nam tax bill aimed primarily at corporations, stipulating that their indirect political donations will no longer be even partly tax-deductible as "business expenses...
Fortunately, the prospects for this year's bill look better. First of all, the bill is being introduced from inside the House rather than outside, so that an organized action of legislators will already be committed. The amendment has also been reworded to allow only prescription contraceptives; this change will pacify those who were worried about the indiscriminate sale of contraceptives to adolescents. Perhaps most important, the Religious Liberties Declaration which came out of the Vatican Council last fall urges Catholics not to interfere with freedom of non-Catholics and states that moral decisions should be left to the individual...
Senator Abraham D. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) introduced the amendment to the $6 billion tax bill. It would allow anyone paying a student's college tuition to subtract as much as $325 from the taxes he would otherwise...
...nothing more than a cruel hoax which society has used to limit the true potential of individuals. "Society and its customs have put blinders on us all, and pot takes them off. Instead of thinking the same thoughts in the neat manner that we have grown accustomed to, drugs allow the mind to wander and form free associations that hardly seemed possible without them. From the summit of a high one can see what trivia our anxieties are made...
...show that they weren't just repeating cliches, some of the students admitted that although drugs allow the mind to escape its habitual cage of civilization, they trap it immediately into a new set of thinking patterns and customs; a new social order with its own stylized mores. These traditions usually grow around a small group of friends who are in the habit of smoking together. The same comments, the same gestures, the same conversations, are repeated within pot cliques and grow into a ritual built around the great...