Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue is clearly nonpartisan, for the "Republican" plan has consistently been supported by a coalition composed in roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. The sales tax was first proposed almost ten years ago by former Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, and its most vociferous supporter, next to the Governor himself, has been Collins -- a power in the state Democratic party. Furthermore, the bill is not one that pits liberal against conservative, for most of the state's liberals have either supported it, or out of personal loyalty to Donahue, remained discreetly silent. Finally, the bill is hardly a confrontation between...
...Coleman verdict, five Lowndes Negroes led by Mrs. Gardenia White filed suit in federal court charging that County Jury Commissioner Bruce Crook, two associates, and Mrs. Kelley Coleman, clerk of the local circuit court (and Tom's cousin by marriage) had violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Last week the three-judge court in Montgomery upheld the Negroes' complaint, found Lowndes County guilty of "gross, systematic exclusion of members of the Negro race from jury duty." Though 80.7% of the county's 15,417 population is Negro, the court noted...
...Knows." The Berkeley police face other problems with equal skill. The fact that courts are constantly changing, redefining and liberalizing the rights of prisoners has brought gripes from cops across the country. Fording is relatively unbothered. "Certainly court decisions have imposed increasing limitations," he admits. "Our job now is to live within the framework that the court has set up." To help do just that, he distributes a monthly reading list that covers recent legal changes as well as advances in investigative methods. The instruction works. In the difficult area of proving narcotics offenses, 198 arrests were made in Berkeley...
...unfortunately the task fell to the House banking committee, which is run as a fief by Chairman Wright Patman, 72. Patman, a moonfaced country lawyer from Patman's Switch (pop. 25), Texas, dislikes big banks, tight money and Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin in about equal degree. Sympathetic to the Supreme Court, Patman stalled the revised bill for 25 weeks. When Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach wrote Patman that he favored a liberalized bank-merger law, Patman just tucked the letter into his pocket. That was too much for committee members who wanted a clarifying bill. One morning...
...Harvard now has a total of 66 points against its opponents. With two matches to go, Princeton has 53 points. Therefore, if Harvard can defeat Yale by the minimum 5-4 margin, Princeton must defeat both helpless Cornell and powerful Yale by 9-0 scores in order to equal Harvard's total point output. If Harvard defeats Yale by a 6-3 margin or worse, it's all over for Princeton...