Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...damage to Haynsworth's cause. Minority Leader Hugh Scott has thus far supported the judge, but unhappily; up for re-election next year, Scott is not anxious to alienate blacks and union members in his industrial state by backing a jurist with an antilabor, anti-civil rights image (see THE LAW). Party loyalty could not hold either Assistant Minority Leader Robert Griffin of Michigan or Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, chairman of the Senate G.O.P. Conference. Both of them announced that they would vote against confirmation...
...upset about his judicial decisions than his judicial ethics. They charge that he has too often been a standpat, antiliberal jurist during his twelve years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. While his record in criminal cases has gone virtually unchallenged, on two other fronts -civil rights and labor cases-critics are concerned about a number of Haynsworth opinions. A chronological look at some that they find troubling...
Closing universities is "a violation of the civil liberties of dissenting students and faculty members," the statement of the University Centers for Rational Alternatives, Inc., (UCRA) said...
...September, the Civil Aeronauties Board changed the formula for determining air fares to a system based on rate per miles travelled, which went into effect October 1. The rate per mile goes down as the number of miles covered rises. Therefore, under the new system, it costs two dollars less than under the previous system to fly from Boston to San Francisco, but five dollars more to fly from Boston to Washington...
Such small gains are not nearly enough to reverse cotton's decline, which has all but wiped out the once bustling exchanges of the South. The exchange in New Orleans, from which clipper ships braved Northern blockades during the Civil War, closed in 1964 and is now a dusty, rotting building. The Galveston and Charleston exchanges shut down last year. Next to go, most likely, will be Houston's, which sold only 100,000 bales in 1968. There is little left for its score of traders to speculate upon -except the question of how long the exchange will...