Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abernathy. "There may have been some practices not in line with acceptable accounting procedures," said Abernathy. "But I'm not suggesting that there has been any dishonesty. If there have been mistakes, they have been mistakes of the head and not of the heart." With more emotion than legal merit, Abernathy insisted that what Reese had done with DCVL funds was "none of the business" of the Dallas County grand jury...
...deploring a series of decisions that seem to them to be aimed at "coddling criminals" and "handcuffing the police." The court's rulings outlawing accepted methods of arrest and interrogation, protests Chicago Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson, are simply "devices for excluding the truth from criminal trials." Many legal scholars, while conceding that the court has redressed some longstanding abuses, are concerned about the enormous problems of readjustment it has posed for police and prosecutors...
Many experts gravely doubt that law-enforcement agencies even now have either the legal or technical weapons needed to combat violence, theft and organized crime at today's intensified levels. At the heart of the controversy over the court lies the danger that the judicial pendulum may have swung too far toward protection of the individual criminal, too far away from protection of society...
...attempt to delay voting on the measure. Presumably, he hoped that his fellow male Congressmen would boggle at granting equal employment rights to women. There was some opposition-New York's Representative Emanuel Celler worried that to give women equal rights might affect just about every legal dealing between men and women-from divorce and property settlements to statutory rape...
...another, about beating the "hot shoe" in the next lane. Auto companies do their best to enhance the illusion: naming cars "Le Mans," "Monza," "G.T.O.," "Grand Prix"; equipping them with bucket seats, tachometers, four-speed transmissions, and speedometers thoughtfully calibrated up to 160 m.p.h.-85 m.p.h. above the highest legal speed limit...