Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, who took the case to the federal courts, asked for $1,000,000 in punitive damages. Judge Cox held that the three defendants were unquestionably responsible for "the dastardly act"; as a matter of law, he said, no reasonable person could dispute their liability. The jury of eight Negroes and four whites then called for $21,500 actual damages, plus $1,000,000 punitive damages. Said Attorney Martha Wood: "We hope that an award of this size will deter such acts in the future...
Indeed it may. Though none of the ex-Klansmen has nearly enough money to pay off, nor are they ever likely to, all may be burdened with heavy debt for the rest of their lives. Under Mississippi law, they can be forced to sell real and personal property, and 25% of their salaries can be garnisheed until the award is liquidated...
...significant, perhaps, as the moment when Martin Luther decided to post his theses on indulgences at Wittenberg Castle Church. On that day last summer, Pope Paul VI promulgated his seventh encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), which condemned all methods of contraception as against God's natural law. Since it reflected the views of a distinct minority of Catholic theologians and moralists, the encyclical created an unprecedented storm of protest and dissent within the church. Millions of laymen, priests and even bishops made it clear that they simply could not accept, without qualification, the teaching of Humanae Vitae...
...become Christ's body and blood. His new creed, promulgated last July, was a disappointingly unimaginative restatement of doctrinal orthodoxy that differed only in minor details from the language of the Council of Trent. His argument against contraception in Humanae Vitae rested on a traditional understanding of natural law-the theory that the function of human organs is defined by their nature. This particular interpretation has been abandoned by most Catholic philosophers as crude and mechanistic...
Married. Anne McDonnell Ford, 48, who has devoted her energies to charity work and maintaining her position in fashion's Hall of Fame since her 23-year marriage to Henry Ford II ended in divorce four years ago; and Deane Johnson, 50, senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers; both for the second time; in Daughter Charlotte Ford Niarchos' penthouse apartment; in Manhattan...