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...deal with Southern segregationists' violence. In its decision last week, the Supreme Court made it clear that such legislation is not only necessary but welcome. Six of the court's nine justices agreed in principle with Justice Tom Clark that Congress does have the power to "enact laws punishing all conspiracies-with or without state action-that interfere with 14th Amendment rights...
...frame of mind of the Roman Catholic Church-its fresh awareness of living in a pluralistic world and its strengthened commitment to the liberty of man's conscience-is softening its historic opposition to easier civil divorce laws. In New York, the state legislature is about to enact, with Catholic acquiescence, the first reform bill since the 1787 passage of a statute that permits divorce only on grounds of adultery. Speaking through their Albany lobbyist, Charles Tobin Jr., New York's bishops made it clear that they would not use their spiritual authority to influence the votes...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. bigwigs gathered in Bal Harbour, Fla., for their annual executive-council meeting last week, they were in a grim mood. They were mostly unhappy over Congress' second refusal to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows states to enact right-to-work laws. Pete McGavin, executive secretary of the federation's maritime-trades department, spoke for many of his colleagues when he observed: "If President Johnson had put as much emphasis on 14(b) as he did on his wife's beautification program, the measure would have gone through...
Even U.S. "migratory divorces" can be challenged when the divorcing state does not have proper jurisdiction over the divorcing couple. For this reason, reformers have long urged a uniform federal divorce code. Congress has no power to enact one without a constitutional amendment, and every proposed amendment since 1884 has failed because states jealously guard their right to marriage and divorce laws based on local conditions and moral attitudes. In fact, a federal law that would supersede local law is not necessary. The states ideally should get together and work out a uniform divorce code that would be agreeable...
Meanwhile, the British enact high military farce; the war has lost its point, and the rear echelon is a jungle of red tape and "bumf" in which the conniver, the spiv and the apple polisher win the pips, the crowns and the privilege. Ennis is fatally handicapped-and funny-not because he is himself farcical but because he is serious-about love, about music, and about the postwar world. Gallantly, he survives each pratfall (even when ordered to take a class in elementary shorthand when he should have been waving his long hands over an orchestra sawing...