Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THERE was one reservation. Students said that the patients never talked about each other's problems, no matter how close their friendships. "It was not that it was an unwritten law," one boy said. "You just didn't. It was irrelevant. It was the given." People could ask each other about what hospitals they had been in, or how long, but not why. "It would have destroyed a basic trust," another student said. "It would have taken away the acceptance that people need to pull themeslves together...
...compromise between Dirksen and liberals, would have made discrimination illegal in two-thirds of the nation's housing action rather than 97 per cent as the original bill provided. Still Dirksen failed to deliver; he could produce only three new votes for cloture including himself and his son-in-law...
...failed despite a low piece of political double-dealing earlier in the day that would further catch the liberals off guard. Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard W. Baker (R-Tenn.), slipped in an amendment which would lop off 29 million more units from the anti-discrimination law. Dirksen termed the amendment "technical changes," and later, trying to explain himself to the liberals, he said that "some provisions crept into the bill which I was not aware...
Today the Senate will once again consider whether or not to close debate on what is left of the open housing law. Hopefully last Friday's performance was not a portent of the kind of history being made...
Breaking Backs. The teachers insist that they are technically not striking, which they are forbidden to do by Florida law. Instead they have resigned-a maneuver that happens to violate the terms of their contract. At midweek, Kirk abandoned a politicking junket in the West, flew home to try to resolve the crisis. His first effort-a pleading back-to-work speech addressed to teachers assembled in Miami's Marine Stadium-ended in failure. Irked by the crowd's hostility, Kirk urged them to "get together with one good rousing boo" for the Governor-and drew only...