Word: enact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Theater. The Commission also reconstructed Oswald's movements after the assassination with near minute-by-minute precision. A Dallas motorcycle cop, M. L. Baker, who was in the presidential motorcade on Nov. 22, had heard the shots, dashed into the Depository building. The Commission had him re-enact his part, timed him at 90 seconds between the time he left his motorcycle and the time he encountered (but did not arrest) Oswald outside a second-floor lunchroom. Could Oswald have run that quickly from the sixth floor to the second? A Secret Service agent, testing, moved...
Debate on this issue is crucial, because Romney's list of accomplishments is astonishingly small. Romney could persuade the heavily Republican legislature to fulfill few of the campaign promises made in 1962. Romney was even less successful than his Democratic predecessor in his efforts to enact a badly needed tax reform. governor John Swainson's bill made it to the floor of the State Senate and almost passed, while Romney's bill died in committee...
...asterisks, argued its lawyers, Pacific would have to spend $4,300,000 to convert its directories. Granting McDaniel's petition, they added, would hamper charity drives and put phone solicitors (one market surveyor has 10,000 of them) out of work. Moreover, the state legislature would have to enact new laws making it a misdemeanor to ignore asterisks...
...Moreno had asked Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown to let Ruby out to play himself on the psychodrama stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
Muskie called for the Federal government to "emphasize and stimulate the exercise of responsibility on the part of local and state governments," and asked that states enact "model legislation," already worked out, which would combine and coordinate "local jurisdictions...