Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...property. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, without whose support the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills would have been defeated, sincerely considers the housing measure "absolutely unconstitutional" and intends to fight it to the death in the Senate. Even many Northern liberals confess that they are disturbed by the idea of depriving a man of the right to sell his property to anyone he likes. It is an idea that appears to go against the American grain; but the fact is that the concept of unassailable property rights has little support in law or custom...
Despite the fact that the Negro who does vault from slum to suburb is likely to be the economic and educational peer of his new neighbors, many whites react with unreasoning fear or hostility to the idea of having a Negro next door. Few things have done more to create this attitude than the high incidence of crime and violence in the black ghettos. Moreover, the swift deterioration of some public housing projects occupied by Negroes leads many whites to believe that the arrival of a Negro family is the certain prelude to garbage in the streets, broken windows, cockroaches...
Timely Defense. Not many years ago, such ideas would have been considered heretical by the conservative Southerners who then controlled the A.B.A. But last week the idea of "the law as friend" seemed instead to dominate the 5,250 A.B.A. members meeting at Montreal's slab-sided Queen Elizabeth Hotel. At first, not all members were quite prepared for change. The 275-member house of delegates very nearly denounced a key provision of the Johnson Administration's pending civil rights bill, which would desegregate Southern federal juries by ending the "key man" system of prominent citizens recommending veniremen...
...Peter Lejins has urged key reforms in the FBI reports, which he himself helps prepare. Auto thefts, he says, should be divided between cars actually stolen for resale by seasoned pros and those merely "borrowed" and then abandoned by joyriding youths. Not impressed, the FBI has rejected Lejins' idea on the ground that it might encourage joyriding. Lejins also questions the FBI's most dramatic statistic-that U.S. crime is "rising six times faster than the population." In fact, most crimes have always been committed by persons aged 18 to 24; the 1945 "war baby" boom has increased...
Next to George. Getting Billy under ground has been difficult from the ending. It was first hoped that he could be laid to rest amid the $1,000,000 worth of garden sculptures that he presented last year to Israel's Hebrew University. That idea fell through when the Israeli government decided that a museum was no place for the remains of a donor. Next, Billy's sisters, Fiftyish Polly Rose Gottlieb, and Sixtyish Miriam Stern, scouted Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth...