Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a highly influential Republican in the House. Secretary of State-designate William Rogers was Eisenhower's last Attorney General; during the Kennedy and Johnson years, he kept a handsome house in Bethesda, Md., and worked both in New York and Washington for a topflight New York law firm...
...smoothest confirmation hearing concerned John Mitchell, Nixon's former law partner and now his Attorney General. The 55-year-old bond expert told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would use electronic devices for "national security and against organized crime." Ramsey Clark, Mitchell's predecessor, had brusquely refused to obey a congressional directive to use wiretapping. Asked if he would mix politics with his work at the Justice Department, Mitchell answered that the 1968 campaign was "my first entry into politics, and I trust it will be my last...
Eight years ago, the black man could not set foot inside many U.S. restaurants or hotels-except as a servant. Now, almost the last vestige of segregation has been wiped off the law books. A Negro votes in the Senate; another sits on the Supreme Court; until this week, a third sat in the President's Cabinet. Black mayors govern Cleveland and Gary, Ind., while in the South, nearly 400 serve in all kinds of elective offices. Black faces are now common in TV commercials and magazine ads; some corporations prize black executives as highly as computers. Proportionally, there...
...Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif. There, he and 23 other tweedy, intellectual fellows have devoted the better part of a decade to rewriting the Constitution. Now in its 35th draft, their version of the document would, in Tug-well's words, "let law catch up with life." Most Americans assume that the world's oldest living written Constitution got that way because of its enduring adaptability to change. Not only does the Supreme Court constantly reinterpret it; Congress has also approved 25 amendments. Santa Barbara's fellows argue that none...
Deeply concerned about law and order, Americans tend to look at crime in only one dimension, focusing on the chase and the capture. They tend to ignore the courts, the prisons and the conditions that cause crime. The Federal Government can probably do less about crime than it is often assumed. But with relatively modest expenditures?or no expenditures at all?the Government can help merely by re-examining the problems. Almost all authorities on crime agree, for example, that many social infractions now classed as crimes?drunkenness, drug addiction and homosexual relations between consenting adults?are not matters...