Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-interest, the corporation had better become an activist in getting equal job opportunity for Negroes," Clifford Alexander '55 said at the Business School yesterday...
Addressing about 200 students and professors at the Public Affairs Forum, the Negro lawyer, who is an Administration troubleshooter for Civil Rights, emphasized the profitability, rather than the morality, of equal opportunity hiring policies...
...reinterpret the federal Constitution when the U.S. Supreme Court appears slow to do so. Speaking for his court in 1948, for example, Traynor boldly ignored an 1883 Supreme Court ruling and tossed out California's antimiscegenation law on the ground that it violated the 14th-Amendment right to equal protection of the laws. Not until 1964 did the Supreme Court reach the same result in McLaughlin v. Florida, and even then it did not quite overrule the 1883 precedent. But virtually all experts predict that Traynor's approach will ultimately prevail...
Naturally, that put East Coach Red Auerbach in something of a bind. In real life, Red coaches the World Champion Boston Celtics-and three of his Celtics were playing for the East. Since the game was in Cincinnati, Auerbach bent over backwards to be fair, care fully parceled out equal court time to each of the East players. "There's only one ball, fellows," Red sighed unhappily. "You've got to remember the spot I'm in." Auerbach's Celtic star Bill Rus sell, who drives an $11,500 Mercedes-Benz, did his bit to help...
...Vietnam issue, but that he felt the Constitution guaranteed every citizen, and every legislator the right to express his opinion openly. If the Court does not consider the Bond case and order the Legislature to seat Bond, his constituent will have been deprived of his right to equal representation...