Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among downtown businessmen, word spread that the Negroes planned to go store by store through the down-town shopping district, boycotting each one until it agreed to hire vast numbers of Negroes. Two of the city's most powerful businessmen called in the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a middle-class minister who had helped organize the courthouse march. They promised that if the boycott were called off, Negroes would be in uniform by the third week in April; not seeing a way to effect the boycott in any event, Lowery agreed. The businessmen kept their promise. "When these racial things flare...
...does Lady Bird's eye miss the capital slums. One project: the beautification of schools in the city's poorer districts. "Broken windows cost the District of Columbia $118,000 each year," she says. "I stood in front of a school one day and counted 26 broken windows on one side alone. But-and here is the magic-at the nine schools we have landscaped, the breakage has dropped to almost nothing...
...federal courts by Yale-trained U.S. Attorney Jon O. Newman, 34, a rising protege of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff and a former law clerk of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Laying down a new rule that startled many crime-conscious citizens and many disappointed prosecutors, Newman announced that in his district, "full disclosure of the prosecution's evidence will be made to defense counsel a week before trial, provided defense counsel discloses to the prosecution the evidence to be presented by the defense...
Cleans v. Dirties. Proposition 16 is flatly opposed by California's Democratic Governor Edmund Brown, the California District Attorneys' Association, the California Library Association and the California Republican League. Even G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Ronald Reagan, who is for it, acknowledges "constitutional problems." The state attorney general's Committee on Obscenity calls Proposition 16 unconstitutional, argues that passage is sure to "freeze" California's anti-obscenity law -and the legislature's power to change it-"pending a determination by the courts as to the constitutionality of the initiative." In a sharp editorial, the Los Angeles Times...
According to the charge, Wolfson, his associates and his family controlled both Continental and the patent to an aerosol-dispensing device called Propel-Pak. They swapped the licensing rights on the patent to Continental in return for 35% to 40% of royalties from sub-licensing contracts. Then, says U.S. District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, Continental used publicity to puff the price of the stock from $2.75 to $8.50 a share. During and just after the publicity drive, Wolfson sold off 407,000 shares, and his family and friends-including Gerbert, who placed the sell orders with eight different firms-sold...