Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument is too important to be taken over by its extremists. Dissent is empty without the suggestion of practical alternatives. Candid answers and explanations are required from the policymakers who must make the decisions...
...argument failed to impress a group of three Southern Governors convened by George and Lurleen to map strategy against the integration order. But it was bound to go down well in Alabama, where State Education Superintendent Austin R. Meadows said last summer: "Segregation is the basic principle of culture. The good segregate themselves from the bad." Avoiding euphemism, Alabama's Chief Justice J. Edwin Livingston says plainly: "I'm for segregation, and I don't care who knows it. I would close every school from the highest to the lowest before I would go to school with...
...Board of Trade, in eight months of bitter negotiations, was not impressed by the companies' argument that massive promotion was necessary for high-volume sales, which, in turn, permit low-cost mass production and spending for research. The board's president, Douglas Jay, threatened mandatory across-the-board price reductions. Lord Cole, Chairman of Lever's parent, Unilever, vowed to fight against that possibility "by all legal means...
...revolutionary or original step. All across the nation, separate-sex schools are rapidly going coed, and some educators wonder whether colleges that do not go along with the trend will survive at all. "Nowhere in the world," insists Vassar President Alan Simpson, "is anyone really making a powerful argument for separate education any more." Kenyon College President Franze Edward Lund agrees that separate education "is an anachronism in an age that admits less and less distinction between the sexes in both professional and social life...
Barring Transients. To the argument that "abortion has always been forbidden by the church," Lamm replied that until the reign of Pope Sixtus V (1585-90), termination of pregnancy was permissible within 40 days of conception for a male fetus and 80 days for a female.* Sixtus banned all abortions, but was reversed in the year after his death by Gregory XIV, who declared abortion illegal only after the fetus quickens. Not until 1869, said Lamm, did Pius IX revert the church to the position of Sixtus V. Lamm urged Catholics to follow the lead of Boston's Richard...