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Shock Waves. Last year, in his capacity as a state legislator, W. Byron Rumford introduced a bill prohibiting discrimination for reasons of race or creed in the sale or rental of nearly all California real estate properties. The Democratic-controlled legislature was most reluctant to take any such action. But Democratic Governor Pat Brown put on all sorts of pressures; civil rights demonstrators staged sit-ins and hunger strikes, and just a few minutes before the 1963 session of the legislature ended, the Rumford bill was passed...
...hide his dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower Administration. Once he called it a "dime-store New Deal," and on another occasion, when he was asked if Milton Eisenhower might make a good presidential candidate, he sniffed: "One Eisenhower in a generation is enough." He expressed his own political creed in a book, The Conscience of a Conservative, which since 1960 has gone through 20 editions, sold close to 21 million copies...
Harlan's frequent dissents are his creed; he is the disciple of judicial restraint on a court that he finds increasingly willing to reshape just about everything that comes to its attention. In the judicial year that ended last week, Harlan wrote 20 dissenting opinions, twice as many as any other Justice. The year before, he wrote 22 dissents. Sometimes Harlan is supported in them by Justices White, Clark and Stewart, but he is regularly beaten by the five so-called "activists": Chief Justice War ren and Justices Douglas, Black, Brennan and Goldberg...
This incident has been made to take on overtones of discrimination. Hayes Bickford's treats everybody, regardless of color or creed, with equal indifference toward their patronage. If one does not like the service at a cafe, then one finds a place closer to his standards of quality. Derek Reist...
...Epistle and Gospel and all the chants of the Mass - the introit, gradual, offertory and communion verses -will be in English, and so will a number of prayers that will be recited by priest and congregation together: the Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy on us), the Gloria, the Creed, the Sanctus at the beginning of the canon, and the Lord's Prayer. Also in English will be a new Prayer of the Faithful, in which the congregation will be asked to pray for such causes as the church, the bishops, all Christians, and (by name) the sick and dead...