Word: avoiding
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...there be experiment with a dozen approaches, or a hundred." Previous federal assistance efforts under the Urban Renewal and Public Housing agencies, now part of HUD, have tended to be spotty and so vulnerable to bureaucratic snarls that they have created almost as many problems as they solved. To avoid these pitfalls, the new plan demands concentration on a single showcase area if a city wishes to qualify for federal aid. It sets 14 criteria to assure that initial goals are maintained and that work goes on rapidly and efficiently. For instance, a city would have to designate a single...
Throughout the South, clubmanship has become the most popular way to avoid compliance with the discrimination-banning public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Even a "membership-only" hamburger joint is technically beyond reach of the law. "You've got to prove it's a sham," says John Doar, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "It's more than a matter of having a Negro testify that he was refused service. You've got to have a white person testify that he was served"-without actually being, a member...
...established schools and privately established parks is clearly similar. If the majority thought that its decision left "unaffected the traditional view that the 14th Amendment does not compel private schools to adapt their admission policies to its requirements," said Harlan, he did not agree. He found it difficult "to avoid the conclusion that this decision opens the door to reversal of these basic constitutional concepts. The example of schools is, I think, sufficient to indicate the pervasive potentialities of this 'public function' theory ... a catch phrase as vague and amorphous as it is far-reaching...
...more prosperous suffered as well. Boulders cascaded from the hills, breaking water mains and damaging houses. Mud oozed down, clogging streets. Hordes of rats scurried from the flooded sewers, and health authorities started mass immunizations to avoid a typhoid epidemic. Electrical power failed in many neighborhoods...
...keep Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain from winning the Ford-although he needed it less than anybody else, since he owns a $24,000 Bentley-and can't get into a Volkswagen. At 7 ft. 2 in., Chamberlain was just too tall and talented to avoid scoring 21 points. Auerbach finally got lucky when, with the East leading 29-12, he sent in Cincinnati's Adrian Smith, the last player named to the ten-man East squad...