Word: enactments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest that every man, woman and child has a right to be armed to the teeth. The Founding Fathers never sought to inject such a remarkable concept into the Second Amendment. The Kennedy assassination, the attack on James Meredith, the University of Texas rampage must arouse Congress to enact laws aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands of the unstable, the immature and the antisocial...
...Bobby Kennedy got through an amendment that emancipated New York's Puerto Rican population by waiving literacy requirements in English for Spanish-speaking Americans who have attended U.S.-flag schools). Javits makes no obeisance to the titular authors of the laws he has helped to shape and enact. "I really pulled that one off," he says, or "I did an excellent thing setting that...
Rocky Role. Lindsay's fiscal program would be difficult to enact at any time, not only because of endemic popular opposition to any broad-based levy but also because of New York City's stepchild relationship to the state legislature, which controls its powers of taxation. Political divisions and election-year considerations have made matters worse than usual. The new Republican mayor had to contend with a Democratic city council, which nonetheless gave him reluctant backing on much of his program. In Albany, the Democrats dominate the assembly while the Republicans rule the senate. Moreover, Republican Governor Nelson...
While the city got less than it sought, the city council at week's end was at least able to enact a balanced budget that, with some relatively minor trimming, fell just $134 million under Lindsay's $4.6 billion request. "We have done the best we can," said the weary and wiser mayor. For those who live and work in the city, the pain of higher taxes was at least eased by the prospect that New York was finally on the road to fiscal responsibility...
...police, on the other hand, presented a painstaking and cohesive case. The 1957 Buick they claimed had led them on an 80-m.p.h. chase was tested on a treadmill to prove it was still capable of such high speeds; a similar car was used to re-enact the shooting for photographic exhibits. A ballistics expert testified that gunpowder burns on the victim's shirt proved the gun had been fired inside the car, and a physiologist was brought in to verify that a man thrown off balance would tend to make a reflexive clutching movement that could pull...