Word: item
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House pickets had a new reason for protesting after the Government recently introduced a 33-item questionnaire including the requirement that demonstration leaders list their arrest and conviction records as well as their views on the use of violence before permits would be issued. U.S. District Judge George Hart, a conservative and strict constructionist, surprised many civil libertarians when he struck down 15 of the 33 questions, ruling that the exhaustive questionnaire had a chilling effect on First Amendment freedoms. The Houston Peace Coalition won a similar court victory over city officials who discouraged political parades in the downtown...
Most of the questionnaire employs the so-called Osgood differential, which juxtaposes alternatives like "stimulating" and "stultifying" and then asks the person polled to rate an item (such as lectures) on a numerical scale between the two extremes...
...Item. Though there were already four candidates for the senatorial nomination, the committee voted to allow a fifth into the primary, despite the fact that his party registration had lapsed...
...Item. Led by U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm ("God help the Democratic Party"), embittered black and Puerto Rican committee members staged a walkout, when they feared that they were losing their fight for black representation on the ticket...
...proposal to allot $600 to help the state root out a blight called pine blister rust went down because, as one man said: "We can do it better, and for nothing." One item on the "warrant," or agenda, suggested replacing Mount Vernon's 22 conventional street lights with 17 mercury-vapor lights to provide better illumination. When the first selectman explained that the change would increase the monthly electric bill by $25.90, a resident shouted: "Forget it!" It was unanimously voted down...