Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front-row Senate desk, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long rose last week to open the debate. "The pending bill," he said, glancing at the 387-page document before him, "will be the largest and most significant piece of social legislation ever to pass the Congress in the history of our country. It will do more immediate good for more people who need the attention of their Government than any bill that the Congress has ever enacted...
...River Thames 20 miles from London lies Runnymede, where King John in 1215 fixed his seal to a strip of parchment that Winston Churchill later called "the most famous milestone of our rights and freedom." That document was Magna Carta (Great Charter). Last week scores of bewigged and berobed British judges, in the company of dignitaries of foreign lands, gathered in London to celebrate Magna Carta's 750th birthday. The ceremonies were somber and simple. Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies reminded the listeners that Magna Carta established that "the law is king." And American Bar Association...
Vitality & Life. Modern historians dismiss most of Magna Carta as something of a relic of 13th century feudalism, and most schoolboys read of it but never in it. Yet the remarkable thing about that venerable document is that it enunciated many of the brilliant first principles that give vitality to the U.S. Constitution and thus life to the law that affects and protects the great and the humble alike...
From this combination of government and business, fortified by expert advice, came the 1965-1975 General Plan for the City of Boston, a formidable document that outlines the proposed of redevelopment--some of which has already begun. By 1975 the program should have altered 25 per cent of the city's 31 square miles and have affected 50 per cent of its 700,000 population. The plan's comprehensive scope, its thoughtfulness, and its bold promises of progress are all calculated to impress. But the intent seems wrong. The spirit behind it appears more concerned with maximizing business opportunity than...
Liquor stores and bars have begun to demand a Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Identification Certificate before they will serve marginally legitimate customers. The Certificates became available May 1 and already the Varsity Liquor Store will accept no other document as definitive proof...