Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clear-Cut Violation. As a result of last week's decision, Bond will get $2,000 in lost pay from the last session, can also expect $5,200 in pay and expenses from the upcoming session. By doggedly challenging the hostile sentiment of the legislature, Bond has guaranteed the basic right of unpopular legislators, both Negro and white. He will not be alone in the Georgia legislature: ten other Negroes were elected last month, and none of them has been challenged...
...dissenters. Yet if it overruled the Georgia house, it would move the judiciary -if only tentatively -into a hitherto sacrosanct area of legislative prerogative. No court, either federal or state, had ever before overruled the right of a legislature to judge the qualifications of its own members. The Bond case involved such a clear-cut violation of freedom of speech, however, that the precedent set by the court may have only limited applicability. The court is likely to step warily into more complicated problems of legislative prerogative. Without question, too, state legislatures will henceforth hesitate before barring or expelling members...
Working with space-age circuitry and components, engineers have designed new snoopers that are marked improvements on the cigarette-pack transmitters, the spike mikes and the phone taps of a few years ago (TIME, March 6, 1964). Today's bugs rival the imaginative equipment of James Bond novels or the TV fantasies of The Man from U.N.C.L.E...
...being played by two white or two Negro partners. It has no bloodstream of its own but siphons its vitality from the headlines of the hour, just as an inert patient is intravenously fed plasma. Furthermore, the fact that two very special kinds of outcasts discover a common bond of humanity is not particularly convincing proof that the bridge of universal brotherhood is easy to build...
Glacial Torpor. Though $750 mil lion sounds like a bundle, it is only a Band-Aid for an industry that often consumes more new capital per year than all stock and bond issues combined...