Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clause affects all U.S. employers of 100 or more workers, a limit that will drop to 25 in three years. A new federal agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has been set up to enforce the antidiscrimination ban- and seems likely to become Washing ton's most embattled bureaucracy...
...Maryland, though, was the only state requiring jurors to swear that God holds them "morally accountable," that they will be "rewarded or punished therefor either in this world or the world to come." All this gave cynics an easy escape from jury duty. But it also denied sincere nonbelievers "equal protection of the laws...
...until this fall did the Maryland Court of Appeals finally bow to the "inevitable result" of the 1961 Torcaso decision. Then it bowed with a vengeance. The court reversed the murder conviction of a Buddhist named Lidge Schowgurow, who claimed that he had been denied equal protection while on trial for killing his wife (TIME, Oct. 22). Since Buddhists do not believe in God, he argued that members of his faith were automatically excluded from his jury. Even though no Buddhist would-be jurors were involved, the court upheld Schowgurow and voided the "belief in God" requirement for jurors throughout...
Harvard dominated the third period, but Thornton was equal to the assault. He turned aside 22 Crimson shots, many off the sticks of Eric Rosenberger and Jack Garrity, who led the offensive harassment all night...
...Congress should widen the scope of the fair-employment section of the 1946 Civil Rights Act to include public employees. This would be aimed particularly at integrating employment in state courts and police forces. Congress could base such a law on its power to enforce the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...