Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, is that such a limit would force the courts to speed up -or else provoke public wrath when accused criminals go free. Whether trial deadlines should be defined by federal courts and enforced as a constitutional right is debatable. It may well be preferable for state legislatures to enact statutes setting the deadlines-as in Illinois and California, where defendants are now supposed to be tried within four and two months respectively. But if other states fail to follow suit, the reformers say, then a constitutional rule for speedy trial may be the only way to waken the public...
...religious cause without a license. The U.S. Supreme Court declared for Cantwell: 'The First Amendment declares that Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The Fourteenth Amendment has rendered the legislatures of the states as incompetent as Congress to enact such laws...
Through seven Midwest, Border and Southern states last week, Nixon sounded his theme. He has scaled down the war, and needs Republican support to continue that progress. He wants "new programs to reform America," and needs Republicans to enact them. He wants a stop inflation, but the "runaway pending binge" perpetrated by Democrats hampers him; the only solution is to defeat the "big spenders...
...friends of Simon's brother, Danny, a TV writer whose divorce gave Simon the idea for Odd Couple. Danny became Felix, the fussy journalist who, after splitting with his wife, moves in with Oscar, an untidy sportswriter-divor-cee; the two, in turn and in caricature, unconsciously re-enact their failed marriages. Klugman once kidded Danny Simon: "Jesus, actors are ashamed to play the part of Felix." Replied Danny: "I was ashamed to live...
...avoid these increased costs, Illinois hospital and medical associations are pressuring the state legislature to follow two dozen other states and enact legislation exempting blood from the doctrine of strict liability. Such a measure would go far toward lightening the liability of hospitals that administer blood transfusions. It would do little, however, to reduce the substantial risk of hepatitis for those receiving the blood...