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But the problem had already arrived. Hoping to legislate it away, Parliament in 1965 passed a race relations act that made it illegal to incite racial hatred. Broadened in 1968 and 1976, the act now bans discrimination in employment, schools and housing, and empowers a Commission for Racial Equality to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

After three days of intense hiking and climbing, the 23-year-old geology major was ready to eat a hearty dinner. What he and the other prisoners got instead were three dill pickle spears, a bologna sandwich, re-warmed canned hash, three-day-old stale cake and cold milk. Not...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

Oehen's proposal was not exactly new; a similar but less sweeping measure was narrowly defeated in 1970. But by playing on the deep resentment many Swiss feel toward migrant workers, who are blamed for everything from the housing shortage to overcrowded nurseries and schools, Oehen's "over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: A Bout of Xenophobia | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

The difficulties of accepting crafts as pure art are exemplified by the exhibit. Although the pieces are beautiful and sensitively mounted on cork slabs, they are ultimately only exercises in one method of making pottery--the wheel method. The wheel method operates on much the same principle as a lathe...

Author: By Carrie Jones, | Title: Wheels of Fire | 5/14/1974 | See Source »

Presently, as in the past, the greatest hope of American labor is in the rank-and-file membership, the men and women who pay their dues and who maintain unity and solidarity at the bench, the lathe, and the assembly line. When a little more experience has taught them a...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: CIO-UAW Fight | 5/17/1972 | See Source »

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