Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opinion. John Kennedy's assassination did not goad Capitol Hill to act. There was a brief flurry, centering around Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's bill to ban the mail-order sale of all guns, but as soon as the N.R.A. started moving, Congress stopped. Its paralysis persisted after last April's slaying of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy's murder in Los Angeles brought an appeal from the President for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns, but Congress responded by completing action on a measure so toothless?it provides for little more than a ban on mail-order...
...have become a cum-laude graduate in criminality. Flush with unaccustomed cash and astute at espying loopholes in the law's vigilance, he rambled across the country using a collection of aliases. Then, after a .30-'06 bullet killed Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, spurious radio messages sent Memphis police chasing the wrong way after Ray's 1966 white Mustang...
...Library. On April 16, Ray paid $8 for a Canadian passport in the name of Sneyd. "He blended into the wallpaper," recalls Lillian Spencer, manager of the Kennedy Travel Bureau, who handled the simple declaration that Ray signed, affirming that he was a Canadian citizen. Next day, on Miss Spencer's say-so, Travel Agent Henry Moos notarized the form and forwarded it to Ottawa...
According to Vatican sources, the motu proprio would have overruled and ignored the findings of the pontifical birth-control commission, which recommended by a 4-to-1 majority that the church relax its traditional opposition to contraception (TIME, April 28, 1967). In its final form, the Pope's pronouncement would have outlawed any mechanical or chemical form of birth control, including the Pill. In effect, it would have held the church to the judgment on procreation handed down by Pope Pius XI in 1930-that "any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that...
...burst of trading toppled volume records not only on both major stock exchanges but also, by brokers' estimates, in the over-the-counter market. On the New York Stock Exchange, volume soared to an all-time peak of 21,350,000 shares. It was the third time since April 1 that Big Board turnover had reached new heights, eclipsing by ever-increasing margins the 39-year-old record of 16,410,000 shares traded on Oct. 29, 1929, when the market suffered its worst crash. On the American Stock Exchange, a center of speculation that worries many brokers, volume...