Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the white middle-class residents of the San Fernando Valley, a vast expanse of tract homes and shopping centers northwest of the city's heart. "Sam's people," as they are called, do not insist upon political heavyweights as their elected representatives. But they are strong law-and-order advocates with an especially low tolerance for official malfeasance...
...obedience to Moslem law, he never had more than four wives at a time, but divorce was simple and the wives many. No one seems to know how many children he sired, although one count puts it at 45 sons and 46 daughters. (One report speaks of the proud moment when three wives gave birth to three children on the same...
From grade school to graduate school level, groups of militant students have been effectively demonstrating their ability to disrupt and even shut down U.S. institutions of learning. On campus and off, more moderate types have been asking with increasing frequency: What about the law? Do the militants have a right to prevent other students from enjoying their rights? Last week, in a decision that firmly upheld a peaceful protest in Des Moines by five public school demonstrators, the U.S. Supreme Court also suggested that the Constitution does not protect demonstrations when they are disorderly and disruptive...
Reducing the Bill. The volunteers are doing pioneer work in a comparatively new field of law: the rights of the poor. In an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Legal Aid Society seeks to have the state's tenant-eviction statute declared unconstitutional because the law makes it all but impossible for the evicted persons to defend themselves in court. Volunteer lawyers are also challenging in a federal court state welfare laws that provide payments for a parent's first three children but none for any born thereafter...
First, most of the airlines want to keep Youth Fare. Rumor has it they have retained President Nixon's former law firm to represent them in the matter (another rumor is that the firm turned them down). The CAB may very well accept the industry point of view, provided it can find statutory justification for doing so. Perhaps the controversial Trans-Pacific Case has involved the Board in enough recriminations for one year...