Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in recorded history, a U.S. President asked a defeated rival to attend an international summit council: in a ten-minute White House meeting last week, Dwight Eisenhower told Adlai Stevenson he would be "very happy" to have Stevenson accompany the U.S. delegation to next week's heads-of-government NATO meeting in Paris. Leaving the White House, Stevenson first said he was not really sure he had been invited, then promised to decide within a week or ten days, that afternoon announced that he would not go "unless there are compelling developments...
First in the nation, the New York City Council voted 20 to 1 last week to outlaw race restrictions in New York City private housing.* Effective next April, 1,787,000 nonrestricted apartments will be available to all tenants and buyers; landlords and owners who refuse to rent or sell to Negroes, Jews, Puerto Ricans or other minority groups will have to face complex "conciliation" hearings before a newly created Fair Housing Practices Panel, backed up by the threat of city-obtained court orders to enforce compliance with the law. Exempted: one-or two-family houses, unless they are part...
...York City Council outlawed Jim Crow public housing...
...Dwight Dogherty, Jr., of Dunster House, John Stephen Gracey and Marc Leland, both of Adams House, were elected to the Student Council last night to represent the class...
Lawrence Ekpebu of Lowell, Chitranjan Kapur of Winthrop, and Lionel B. Spiro of Leverett, were chosen to represent the class of '60. Both Dogherty and Gracey had expressed opinions favoring changes in the present status of the Student Council, whereas Leland criticized any plan for a referendum on the matter...