Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giant Image. Nelson Rockefeller talks of multibillion-dollar schemes for urban redevelopment. Ronald Reagan, though popularly considered to be this year's Mr. Conservative, withdraws his opposition to California's open-housing law, promotes a legislative package aimed at economic salvation of the ghettos. Nixon, still regarded by many as the partisan epitomized, reaches out with new ideas for the support of independents and Democrats, and talks up the development of black capitalism. Humphrey, too, advocates expanded opportunities for Negro ownership of inner-city businesses...
...more or less inaugurated this business of family campaigning when John Kennedy ran for the Senate in 1952." Since Bobby's March 16 announcement, all the clan from Rose to Freckles, the Senator's Irish spaniel, has swarmed across the landscape to pursue voters. While Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith and Brother Teddy manage campaign logistics and strategy, Sisters Jean and Pat, Sister-in-Law Joan and Cousin Polly Fitzgerald descend upon the distaff electorate. Materfamilias Rose is one of the wonders of the campaign. "Look at those legs," marveled a 70-year-old man in Los Angeles...
...draft records, reasoning that the amendment, in effect, abridged freedom of speech. In a 7-to-l decision last week, the Supreme Court disagreed and upheld the congressional amendment by comparing the burning of draft cards to the destruction of tax records, also required to be kept by law. "We cannot accept the view," observed Chief Justice Warren, "that an apparently limitless variety of conduct can be labeled 'speech...
Then he sped on to Mulhouse, near the German border, where his son-in-law, General Alain de Boissieu, commands the French army's 7th Division. During the meeting, at which twelve other generals were present-including Jacques Massu, the commander of French forces in Germany, who, ironically, led the army rebellion in Algeria that brought De Gaulle to power in 1958-De Gaulle asked how the army would react if there were a showdown with the French left. The generals first told him in no uncertain terms that the army would never fire on students or coerce striking...
...another. In some ways, what rankles many Spaniards most is the government's retreat from its promise to relax its tight rein over significant portions of the country's life. After a strike shut down a Bilbao steel plant for seven months, the 1965 right-to-strike law was revoked, a bitter blow to labor. The much heralded press law of 1966 had its freedom riders seriously curtailed by the inclusion of press offenses in the penal code, which provides the regime with a handy means of punishing dissenting opinion...