Word: eral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weltner, a handsome, fiercely independent lawyer of distinguished Southern lineage (his great-grandfather, Gen eral Thomas R. R. Cobb, wrote the Confederate constitution and was killed at Fredericksburg), personified "the new breed" of Southern Congressman -and was proud of the label. Elected to Congress in 1962 as a result of a court-ordered redistricting that gave his Atlanta district a 25% Negro vote, Weltner, in his first major House speech, indicted Southern white leaders who, he charged, "have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent...
...increase in aid has been dramatic. The College Scholarship Service, a private, Princeton-based coordinator of aid programs, estimated that $440 million was available three years aso in all types of aid; this year some $710 million is being offered. Much of the increase has come from fed eral funds in five main programs...
Athos, at 32, is an academic oddity who entered Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration from Gen eral Motors Institute without an under graduate degree, and he dates his own undedicated concern from "the day 1 stepped off the subway and came up into Harvard Square." At U.S.C., Athos has devised a course called "Organizational Behavior," now required of all business-administration majors, which raises ethical and psychological issues, and has made Athos what one colleague calls "the hottest commodity ever to hit our business school...
Overturning the Los Angeles decision, the Supreme Court ruled that franchise terms were not at issue. Gen eral Motors and its dealer associations, said Justice Abe Fortas, had removed a "class of traders from the market"-an antitrust violation per se. With that decision, discounters apparently won open season on the U.S.'s 29,000 franchised dealers...
...split decision, a three-man fed eral court in Atlanta last week upheld the right of Georgia's legislators to refuse to seat Julian Bond, 26, a Negro civil rights worker who had publicly expressed admiration for the courage of draft-card burners and urged Americans to boycott the war in Viet Nam (TIME, Jan. 21). In the court's view, the Georgia house of representatives was justified in construing Bond's public statements as a denial of his lawmaker's oath to support the U.S. and state constitutions...