Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the critics have not been exactly on target in attacking Warren, for the Chief Justice is only one of nine men, with only one of nine votes. "Warren should get neither the blame nor the credit," says Harry Kalven Jr., a law professor at the University of Chicago. "Both the great achievements and the non-achievements of an institution are collective." A Columbia law professor sees Warren's chief significance in his having "brought a fifth vote to positions that were dissenting positions before he came." In fact, no Chief Justice has come close to dominating the court...
...would result in time-killing hearings or a lengthy debate in Congress. Without question, he considers the gun-control provision in the omnibus crime bill to be hopelessly weak. He is not at all happy about the rest of the bill, either, though he reluctantly signed it into law last week. Johnson had considered vetoing the bill, but was assured by eleven governmental departments whose advice he had requested that most sections would hold up under constitutional law. Only four hours and 46 minutes before midnight, when the bill would have become law automatically, he finally signed the 110-page...
...what the President requested in 1967, when he called on Congress to strike a blow against crime in America. Among these: $400 million for assistance to state and local police in the next two fiscal years-almost 10% of the total amount now spent on all aspects of law enforcement...
...Commandos can already claim some victories. Despite a 70% hike in fire insurance rates for 1968, many insurers were canceling protection for U.S.-owned supermarkets and stores. To help them out, Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella earlier this month signed an emergency law forcing insurance companies in Puerto Rico to take on up to $7,000,000 a year in high-risk policies for companies unable to obtain normal insurance coverage...
...addition to imposing strict travel control over passenger and freight traffic between West Berlin and West Germany, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht has solemnly decreed that no senior of ficials of the West German government may set foot on East German territory. Last week Ulbricht's law was flouted by his closest ally. After secret arrangements worked out by the Soviet Union through Swedish intermediaries, a black Mercedes with a Russian driver called for West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt in West Berlin, whisked him past East German checkpoints without even bothering to stop, and drove him to a suburban...