Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leonard Carpenter Meeker, 49, deputy legal adviser in the State Department, will move up to legal adviser. A dedicated, little-known Government attorney from New Jersey, Meeker was a Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst, got his law degree from Harvard in 1940, and, except for four years' Army duty in World War II, has been working for the Government in Washington ever since...
...General. Turner was Katzenbach's personal choice to replace William Orrick, who is resigning. A consultant to both the Government and private industry in top antitrust cases, Turner has written widely on the subject, is considered an expert with a tough approach. In Antitrust Policy: An Economic and Legal Analysis, a book that Turner co-authored with Carl Kaysen, he suggested that a single company that controls more than half of its market, or any four companies that together command more than 80% of the market, are monopolistic and should be required to loosen their hold...
Despite these consolations, the rare American who winds up in a foreign jail cannot expect to lean on the U.S. Constitution. Every tourist is subject to the laws of the land in which he travels. All his consul can do is see to it that he gets the same legal treatment as any citizen of that country. Among the legal pitfalls most likely to face U.S. tourists...
...AUSTRIA. Jaywalking tourists in Vienna should happily pay up if a cop demands 10 shillings (40?) on the spot; the fine is perfectly legal, and protest only causes arrest. Viennese streetcars are sacred; even driving autos on the tracks is illegal. Austria also bans the wearing of all foreign military uniforms...
...ITALY. All foreigners must register with the Italian police (or let their hotel do it) within three days of arrival, and it is wise to carry identity papers at all times. On the whole, though, Italy is a tourist's legal paradise. Customs officials are inclined to overlook illegal liquor and cigarettes (more than two botties or two cartons); a 90-day stay can be extended in minutes; an expired passport gets a 48-hour grace period; traffic cops beam at addled tourists and dole out multilingual warning notes rather than parking tickets. Even disorderly tourists get breaks unknown...