Word: generale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon itself. Last July, Nixon settled upon a desegregation policy that would concentrate upon progress through court orders rather than through Washington's second available weapon, the withholding of Health, Education and Welfare Department funds from noncomplying school districts. In August, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, supported by Attorney General lohn Mitchell, granted 33 Mississippi school districts a grace period of three months, until Dec. 1, to adopt a HEW-drawn plan for desegregation. Actual integration would have been delayed even further...
...inside. He has scoured the record of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., and has flatly rejected as character assassination the conflict of interest charges Democrats have leveled against the Supreme Court nominee. His efforts have produced one notable success so far: he was responsible for the resignation of Major General Carl Turner as Chief U.S. Marshal before the recent Army scandal broke involving kickbacks and payoffs in the operation of NCO clubs...
...will be up to the district judge to determine whether witnesses' lawyers will have the right to question their own clients and other witnesses. But Kennedy did win a partial victory. The inquest will be private, with the record impounded until the case is finally closed. "These general rules," said the Supreme Judicial Court, "tend to avoid embarrassment by premature publicity."* The court also noted that "Petitioner Kennedy's own resort to television may have increased public interest in the events...
...Scott's biggest problems is the parlous state of relations between Republican Senators and "downtown," an often pejorative Capitol Hill term for the executive branch. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky has been getting no answers to his letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper to his office recently to talk over a Post Office problem, Cooper refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers...
...traffic controllers, and-quite understandably -President Forwood Wiser of TWA, who sat out the 17-hour ordeal with other top company executives at the airline's Manhattan headquarters. Said a Federal Aviation Agency official: "That flight was handled as if it were Air Force One." The general public of two continents hung on Flight 85's every move, fascinated by the airborne drama. Once again it was evident that the awesome machines of the jet age can become even more fragile hostages than the hapless crews themselves...