Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Direct Voice. To emphasize the space agency's go-go attitude, Webb named the U.S.'s new team selected to land on the moon: Navy Captain Walter Schirra, 44, a veteran of both Mercury and Gemini space flights, and two space tyros, Major Donn Eisele, 36, and Civilian Scientist Walter Cunningham, 35. The three will not only fly the Apollo but-unlike previous crews-will also have a voice in its design and construction. "We'll fly the spacecraft when we, the crew, think it is ready," said Schirra at a press conference at the North American...
...there is a more direct way of eliminating the guidelines, and Southern Congressmen are exacting it as a price for their support of the Administration bill. A House appropriations subcommittee has already moved to bar the use of federal funds to achieve school desegregation...
Cambridge Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. announced that the City Council will itself go to Washington on June 14 to meet with Federal officials. He said that the councillors would attempt to "discuss and persuade," but supported the more direct efforts of the picketers...
...more direct comparison may be made between the compensation of teaching fellows at Harvard and at other institutions. On the basis of a survey of thirty-four institutions carried out by Dean Elder and kind'y supplied to us, we calculate that the average full time rate for teaching fellows and assistants elsewhere is $5613. Harvard's senior rate, $6000, compares somewhat favorably with this average: twelve universities paid more, eighteen less. Harvard's junior rate. $4400, compares far less favorably: twenty-two paid more, eight less.... For senior faculty salaries Harvard in fact ranked first of all these schools...
...direct result of this adverse ruling, the 1960 Civil Rights Act authorized voting suits against states and state governmental groups as well as persons. In 1961, Johnson duly rapped the Macon board's "puny excuses" and enjoined its assorted subterfuges. Most important, he ordered the board to register any Negro whose qualifications equaled those of the "least qualified white." Called the "freeze doctrine," that rule for righting imbalances became the Fifth Circuit's standard formula in voting cases, and was substantially incorporated into the 1965 Voting Rights...