Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school desegregation by young children. I had been working for The Southern Courier; it was the last thing I remembered from the South; and it happened only three days before I started my freshman year at Harvard. Surface has the same single-minded resolve as the trooper to enforce laws arrogantly for the law's sake...
With such a background, Fortas has inevitably become a member of the court's so-called activist majority. He has already staked out juvenile law as an area of special expertise and authored the court's important Gault decision, which extended constitutional rights to young offenders. His compelling advocacy seems certain to increase his judicial reputation. Indeed, it would seem that his move to the court has only one serious drawback. The workload is even heavier than it was in private practice. As a result, though he is an avid and expert amateur violinist, he has reluctantly...
Following the transplant, the common-law wife of the donor, Janitor Luis Ferreira de Barros, 41, arrived at the hospital. When she found out what had happened, she threatened to sue the doctors for removing the heart without permission. She may yet have her day in court. Presently, a bill to legalize such quick transplants is stalled in the Brazilian legislature. Cause for the delay: a proposed provision for assigning mistresses priority over parents, brothers and sisters in granting permission for heart removals. ∙∙∙ The day before the Sao Paulo transplant, Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Edson...
...Philip was transferred from the New Orleans area largely because of his militant stand on civil rights, later was dismissed from a teaching post at Epiphany College in Newburgh N.Y., because of his strong antiwar stand. In opposing the Viet Nam wa, the brothers have openly violated the law out of conviction that other means of dissent have been exhausted. "I have tried all the conventional and legal forms of protest to little or no avail" says Philip, who argues that both Christ and Paul allowed the possibility of civil disobedience when man's law counters...
...measure, New Yorkers will continue to pay the current tax-1 ½ to 5 a share, depending on share prices-but out-ot-state stock sellers can look forward to a 50% cut in the tax over a five-year period beginning in mid-1969. The new law also scraps a rising tax rate on big sales in favor of a flat $350 tax on those of 7,000 shares or more...