Word: local
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them and their white neighbors, Jim Crow is alive and well despite the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Negroes still sit in the balcony when they go to the movies in Carthage (pop. 2,442), the county seat, and use separate waiting rooms when they visit local white doctors. Earlier this month, three Negro women were beaten when they brought their clothes to a white self-service laundry. Typically, the police did nothing...
Like locusts, unsolicited mail has always been a durable plague. It keeps coming back. To stem the descent, an instructor of English at Eastern Michigan University has developed a novel defense. Roger C. Staples, 34, recently complained to local postal authorities that several firms, ranging from Sears to J. C. Penney, were deluging his Ann Arbor home with unwanted "lewd" mail...
...said local postal officials. The department-store and other ads that offended Staples could not be considered pornography. Chacun à son gout, said Staples, obscenity is in the eyes of the recipient; and he took his case to Washington. He argued: "I consider the advertisements for beds, sheets, pillows, girdles and intimate feminine articles offensive." He turned out to be right. Postal laws do indeed say that the recipient of mail is the sole judge of what is obscene. So out went a federal order to all the firms that had been blithely inundating Staples like any potential customer: they...
Arab mayors have been kept in charge of local government, Arab judges in charge of local law. The Jordanian syllabus, although purged of all inflammatory anti-Israel material, is still used in West Bank schools. Israeli agricultural experts dispense advice to Arab farmers. While business on the whole is down because of the loss of Arab tourism, the occupied areas are not economically stagnant. There is a reasonable amount of practical cooperation with the Arabs, but Israeli officials do not deceive themselves about the depth of hostility toward their rule and, as a result, permit a good deal of criticism...
...just the man to bring it off. He has the name,* and the background. The son of a sometime furniture polisher and full-time pacifist, Feather was born in the milling town of Bradford and went to work filling flour sacks at 14. He worked nights on a local Socialist paper, where he used to talk politics with the publisher's daughter, who is now Minister of Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle. At 29, choosing unionism "because I wanted to get rid of poverty," Feather started off with the T.U.C. as a local organizer. He is still well known...