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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, the man who likes at times to stand on his head does not plan to stand Canada on its head. "The first months, perhaps even the first Parliament," he told Time Correspondents Marsh Clark and Courtney Tower last week, "will be devoted to bringing everything up to date, getting the laws updated, the mechanisms in place. There will probably be a lot of criticism in the early months and early years that I am not doing enough. But I'd rather have that than try to start out fast and peter...
...York Times. Its author, David Eisenhower II, 20, Ike's grandson, was in the thick of his new job as chairman of the Youth for Nixon organization. David and Julie Nixon, 19, are so optimistic about her dad's chances that they may move up the date of their marriage, originally planned for after their college graduations in 1970, to "sometime after the election." That could make it a White House wedding...
Last week, Congress finally passed a bill designed to create four permanent three-day weekends by shifting holidays to Monday. The legislators acted only after hearing testimony that proved that the dates were not really certain to begin with. Memorial Day, originally proposed in 1868 as an appointed date on which to decorate the graves of the Union dead, has over the years varied by month and day according to states' whims. Armistice Day, first pegged to Nov. 11 as the date of the World War I armistice, lost its original meaning when it was converted to Veterans...
...last Monday in May, Veterans Day to the last Monday in October, and Columbus Day to the second Monday in October. The bill will affect only federal workers, but it is expected that everybody else will follow suit. With this in mind, the bill's effective date is set at Jan. 1, 1971, to allow time for unions and employers to adjust salaries and contracts to the new legal holidays...
...prosecution never established that the shorts were Miller's, or mentioned that they seemed too small for him. Not until 1963, seven hours before Miller's oft-postponed date with the executioner, did his lawyers win permission from a federal court judge for an analysis of the shorts by a defense chemist. No blood was found on the twelve threads the chemist was given for analysis, and he reported that the red marks were only paint. Prosecutor Ramsey then admitted that he had known all along that there was paint on the pants...