Word: amendment
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Garlic & Gold Coins. At the Shah's request, the Iranian Parliament has unanimously approved a bill that will eventually amend Iran's 50-year-old constitution and enable the Shah to appoint a regent-designate to rule if he should die before his son, Crown Prince Reza, now six, becomes 20 years old. His choice for the regency: his wife, Empress Farah, 28, who has presented him with two male heirs (plus a girl) after two previous wives failed to give him a son. The Shah, who has held Iran's Peacock Throne for 26 years without...
...questions of undergraduate deferment and whether to replace or reorganize the system of local draft boards. Nor does he intend to rush out executive orders-as he has the power to do-to implement the lottery scheme and some other proposals. Congress has until June 30 to renew and amend the draft law, and in so doing it may apply legislative controls to some areas in which the President now has sole jurisdiction. But Johnson's go-slow approach gives Congress time to make its views felt-and an opportunity to share any political consequences of major changes...
...rules of the road for cars, boats and planes were once informal and relaxed. But increased use of the vehicles eventually made it necessary to amend and incorporate them into formal sets of statutes. The same thing seems in store for skiing. So many people are now getting around on skis that they are running into each other as well as less animate objects at alarming rates. The first thing they want to know as soon as they are in traction is whom...
Last week, fresh from his successful battle to kill the 1966 Civil Rights Act, Dirksen rose in the Senate to introduce his so-called "Amen Amendment"-a measure designed to strike at two Supreme Court decisions by modifying the First Amendment so as to permit voluntary prayer in public schools. Few religious leaders favored the amend ment, but that hardly daunted the minority leader. Who did support his cause? "Not the professionals in the church hierarchy," declared Dirksen. "Not the cocktail-party, luncheon-circuit bunch. I'm talking about the church members-the rank and file-and they...
...sake," bellowed Ervin, "and for freedom's sake, let us not vest arbitrary permission power in school boards." When the vote came, Dirksen never really had a prayer. Though he won a 49-to-37 majority, he fell nine short of the two-thirds margin required to amend the Constitution...