Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disturbed by the corporate borrowing, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. warned that it was time to "pressure banks to ration credit." After the stock exchanges had closed for the three-day Easter weekend, the board moved on two fronts. First, it raised the discount rate (the interest that banks pay for the money they borrow) from 5½% to 6%. The increase, second in four months, brought the rate to its highest level since the 1929 crash. To make money more scarce as well as more costly, the board also increased the amount of cash that banks...
...first anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. could have been a day of hope and affirmation. Instead, to millions of black and white Americans last week, it meant a renewal of anxiety. Little, after all, has been done since April 4, 1968, to extirpate racism or to clothe with reality King's dream of social justice. Even so, when brief flurries of violence roiled observances of King's death, they compared in no way to the hideous rioting that swept 168 U.S. communities last year...
...city's April Fools' Day balloting also produced two winners with familiar names. Barry Goldwater Jr., 30, who may be more conservative than his Senator father, won the G.O.P. primary for a vacant Los Angeles seat in Congress. Edmund G. Brown Jr., 31, son of the former Governor, made good in his first race too, leading the primary field for a place on the city's newly created junior colleges board. Both are heavy favorites in their runoffs...
...ruling set aside the conviction of John Sisson Jr., a Harvard graduate who had never even applied for a C.O. classification because he is "not formally religious," and his objection to being drafted was solely related to the Viet Nam war. Drawing from sources as varied as Learned Hand and Alfred North Whitehead, Judge Wyzanski began his legal analysis with the broad contention that the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion means "that no statute can require combat service of a conscientious objector whose principles are either religious or akin thereto...
...most fascinating reports at last week's New Orleans seminar of the American Cancer Society was made not by a doctor or biologist, but by an aeronautical engineer. Clarence Cone Jr., of NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, was assigned by the space agency to study the effect on cell division of any radiation that astronauts might encounter. Cone knew that normal cells, grown in the laboratory, will not multiply and crowd one another beyond a certain point. But cancer cells lack this "contact inhibition," and are joined by intimate bonds or "bridges" of cellular material...