Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Block. Many think the only permanent answer is more permanent judges. But even on the state-and local-court level it is hard to add judges. Last week New York's State Judicial Conference despairingly begged the legislature for 125 new judges. "There are areas of this state," said a conference report, "in which calendar delay is reaching such alarming proportions that a breakdown in the administration of justice is conceivable." But similar requests have been made in each of the past eight years with little result. Reason: Democrats and Republicans can never agree on how many...
Telegrams & Letters. CEF has developed an impressively efficient lobbying machine. Financed by dues ranging from $5 to $100 a year, it maintains offices in Washington and several states, puts out a bimonthly newspaper called Freedom in Education. Through its local chapters, CEF issues calls for public pressure on legislators whenever a bill affecting nonpublic schools is at issue; its supporters faithfully respond by inundating lawmakers with telegrams and letters. One day last November, Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer was deluged with 100,000 telegrams from CEF enthusiasts supporting a parochial pupil aid bill. The Michigan CEF arranged for Catholic schools...
Thus was Richard York, 28, elevated to the ranks of the Episcopal priesthood this month. A 1967 graduate of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, York has been backed by a number of local churches in operating a "free church" that ministers to Berke ley hippies. When the time came for York's ordination, Episcopal officials invited his flower-power friends to participate, and modified the stately services to accommodate the spirit of the occasion. St. Mark's was decked out with gas-filled balloons and banners, children wandered along the aisles at will, and the sermon...
...strike was as much against Glass Blowers President Lee W. Minton, 56, as it was against the companies. Calling the proposed settlement "the best offer we've ever had in this industry," Minton urged his union to accept it. But by a decisive 63-to-30 vote, local presidents rejected the offer and rebuffed their leader. "I don't know why they turned it down," said Minton. "The reasons vary from local to local...
More than 50 local Negro-owned restaurants and stores have contributed food and cooking utensils to feed the students staying in side their dormitories...