Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I recently moved from a suburban Washington district, three of the largest real estate dealers found it impossible to handle the sale of my house because I asked that it be shown to every financially qualified buyer, regardless of religious or national heritage. These agencies were thus barring me not only from their large clientele, but from the considerable minority family market in the Washington area-a clear infringement of my right to sell my property to whomever I chose...
...noteworthy results. At Yorty's prodding, the city's completely independent Airports Department set up a project aimed at providing a system of flying buses-bus pods toted by helicopter sky cranes-between Los Angeles International Airport and downtown. When an impasse developed between the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the U.S. Interior Department, Yorty personally intervened to negotiate a go-ahead on a nuclear-powered
...from behind the bushes; planes from nearby Half Moon Bay Airport began buzzing the beach. Then one outraged parent claimed that his 14-year-old daughter had been persuaded to disrobe in public while visiting San Gregorio with another family. The father tried to press charges, but the county district attorney's office ruled that the incident constituted neither lewd nor obscene conduct, and the case never made it to court. Nonetheless, the publicity put San Gregorio...
Last week New York Federal District Judge Dudley B. Bonsai dismissed the charges against ten of the twelve. Among these were Texas Gulf President Claude Stephens, Executive Vice President Charles Fogarty, and Director Thomas S. Lament, a retired vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust. In an 81-page opinion, Judge Bonsai found that the ten had acted without intent to deceive or defraud anyone. Still standing are charges against Texas Gulf Secretary David Crawford and Richard Clayton, a geophysicist who had helped survey the Timmins ore area. When they bought Texas Gulf stock in April 1964, said the judge, they...
...Supreme Court's Miranda decision has dismayed some policemen, embittered some prosecutors, and baffled some judges. But U.S. television is taking it in stride. In Denver last week, a meeting of 500 district attorneys from across the country was visited by Actor Ben Alexander, burly, laconic co-star with Jack Webb in the popular Dragnet series of the 1950s. Puffing his new Felony Squad show, due next month on ABC, Alexander said: "The Supreme Court says we can't interrogate crooks any more. So what choice do we have?" His answer: "We shoot...