Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governorship, while Attorney General William G. Clark, 43, will have the unenviable task of running against Dirksen. Why had Stevenson been overlooked? "He's already got a job," said Daley. As for Shriver, who is also fully employed running the poverty program, the Kennedy brother-in-law could console himself with reports that he too may have a new job shortly-as U.S. Ambassador to France...
...Apologies. Yet it was clear that most of the Senate favored the measure. As in 1964, when he helped shep herd that year's sweeping civil rights bill into law, Dirksen abruptly appointed himself field marshal of the liberals' forces. Together with a squad of his lawyers known as "Dirksen's Bombers," Ev spent more than two days in negotiations with Senate liberals to fashion a compromise bill. The legislation that emerged would affect an estimated total of 44.6 million of the roughly 65 million housing units in the nation...
Insurance Policy. Dirksen, for all his gifts of legerdemain, found himself without a solid two-thirds majority for cloture. Therefore he and his son-in-law, Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker, sought to mollify the conservatives by introducing new amendments, this time to weaken the open-housing section. Together, their amendments would exclude from the ban on dis crimination all single-family, owner-occupied housing-potentially 30 million units...
...flood of Asians from East Africa. The British have become increasingly concerned about the thousands of Asians entering the country each month (v. only about 500 a month in former years) as a result of Kenya's intensified job and economic discrimination against them. Under the new law, Britain will admit a fixed total of 1,500 Asian household heads a year, plus their dependents. This quota covers not only the Asians still in Kenya but all of the 1,000,000 ex-colonials throughout the Commonwealth who remain Britons by law, if not by color or culture...
Bronstein, former Chief Staff Counsel of the Lawyers' Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC) of the American Civil Liberties Union, has served as attorney for CORE and NAACP as well as LCDC. He has also held voluntary counseling positions in New York and Florida. He received his Masters in Laws from New York Law School...