Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...green areas so they don't have to drive all the way to the Berkshire hills to look at a tree. There is absolutely no doubt that the commissions are the galvanizing force behind most environmental legislation here." Pushed by the commissions, for example, Massachusetts recently enacted a law that permits a landowner to keep his property while selling the development rights to a town, city or charitable organization, thus permanently protecting the area as open space. It is the slickest-and cheapest -scheme for land-banking since former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall encouraged the idea...
...case reached Haynsworth's court, he waited eight months before writing a majority opinion that told the Negroes to wait for state court decisions before asking for federal court action. In dissent, one of Haynsworth's fellow judges called the situation "a truly shocking example of the law's delays." The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed Haynsworth's decision, saying: "We hold that the issues here imperatively call for decision...
...state university; specific intent to carry out the party's unlawful aims must be shown. Equally remarkable, the regents ignored the advice of U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles Young, who opposed the firing from the beginning. "A bunch of old men raising old issues, saying they believe in law and order and doing illegal acts," said Fred Dutton, 46, one of the few dissenting regents...
...many Europeans last week from the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that it would sue to prevent British Petroleum from acquiring control of Standard Oil (Ohio). In fact, much to the chagrin of the State Department, Justice lawyers appeared to be mechanically applying their strict interpretation of antitrust law to what they saw as just another merger-without appreciating that this merger was special enough to call for more delicate handling...
...Presidents, ex-generals and ex-ambassadors-and their ex-secretaries, ex-Jeep drivers and ex-valets-is the privilege of making public their diaries. The result, customarily, is to confront the reader with a literary chore roughly comparable to watching a three-hour slide show of his mother-in-law's latest trip through Navajo country...