Word: interes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Harvard professors gave strong support yesterday to the Kennedy Administration's decision to base the "equal accommodations" provision in its civil rights bill on the federal government's constitutional power to regulate inter-state commerce...
...House Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees, have vigorously defended the need for far-reaching legislation. Thus far they have indicated they will compromise on only one point in the omnibus bill, the controversial Title II section which would eliminate discrimination in privately-owned public accomodations 'substantially' involved in inter-state commerce...
...phrase "substantial" has caused a great deal of concern among legislators who fear its vagueness and unenforceability. Before the Senate Commerce Committee Monday Robert Kennedy indicated the Administration would accept a more precise definition of "substantial" involvement in inter-state commerce. This "definition" would probably be the setting of a certain cash volume of total business as the cut-off point for jurisdiction...
Both ex-Presidents agree that a multilateral leadership of the Alianza is needed to end what Kubitschek calls "this frustrating monologue." They want to set up a new Inter-American Development Committee to run the Alianza. The committee would consist of six representatives of American nations, including a permanent U.S. delegate. Kubitschek's committee would be led by the executive secretary of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, Lleras' by a president elected every five years. Says Lleras: 'He would become the figure that the Alianza is lacking so that its image may cease...
...Israel Klabin. "In an underdeveloped country," says Klabin, "there can be no elite." Yet Klabin himself, a businessman as well as a Sorbonne graduate, belongs to-and prizes membership in -an elite of sorts. At 36, he is one of Brazil's brightest young businessmen and the primus inter pares of an unusual family whose members share equally the profits and responsibilities of running a $130 million business complex. "We are," says Israel Klabin, "something like the Rothschilds...