Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your Law section generally, TIME should be commended for furnishing its readers with some understanding of legal problems...
...faded away over the generations is the old religious motivation behind the laws. Only a minority of U.S. Christians today would argue that blue laws serve any purpose valuable enough to justify imposing them on non-Christians. There is not even any clear theological reason, much less a legal one, for insisting that Sunday be an official day of rest. It was on the seventh day, according to the Old Testament, that the Lord rested from the labors of Creation. Nevertheless, Sunday has been the state-decreed day of rest in Christendom ever since A.D. 321, when the Emperor Constantine...
...weather. Ever since, every blue law seems inevitably to have picked up similar variations. In the U.S., state legislatures have repeatedly yielded to various business groups that wanted to be exempted from Sunday closing. As a result U.S. blue laws are riddled with erratic contradictions. In Pennsylvania it is legal to sell a bicycle on Sunday, but not a tricycle; in Massachusetts it is against the law to dredge for oysters, but not to dig for clams; in Connecticut genuine antiques may lawfully be sold, but not reproductions. The New York blue law code is particularly messy. Bars may open...
...Englander and onetime assistant Manhattan district attorney under Thomas Dewey, Tillinghast took over TWA in 1961 after Industrialist Howard Hughes was forced by the airline's lenders to put his 78.2% ownership of TWA in trust. When Hughes began sniping at the new administration, Tillinghast tied him into legal knots with an antitrust suit. He arranged additional financing for more jets, flew the line constantly to check on service, and shifted TWA's image from that of a tourist's to a businessman's airline...
...questions Wallace's legal right to free speech at Harvard. Therefore, the arguments used against the Governor are essentially ones of taste. In this sense, they share the problems of literary censorship: what standards must one use to pass judgment? When does a person become so objectionable that he should not speak at Harvard? Furthermore, who is to make such an arbitrary decision...