Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court acted after a group of open-housing demonstrators in Louisville had aroused the ire of local citizens. To prevent trouble, the police had made arrests on several charges, including vagrancy and loitering. The demonstrators countered by challenging the constitutionality of all the laws they had been accused of violating...
...tide of the law is flowing, it is likely that local vagrancy and similar statutes will soon fall under the disapproving glare of the courts. The contention is that such laws are unconstitutionally vague and overbroad, violate the First and 14th Amendments, and lend themselves to misuse by law-enforcement officials. Last month, a three-judge U.S. District Court struck Kentucky's vagrancy laws a heavy blow. By so doing, it put similar laws in other states in jeopardy...
...conductor, he said, "is excellent. He understands modern music-he has composed it himself. I have complete trust in him." Penderecki was talking about the musical director of the Minneapolis Symphony, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 44. Later in the week, Skrowaczewski returned the compliment by leading his orchestra, soloists and local choristers in two austerely jolting performances of the Passion at Minneapolis' Northrup Auditorium...
...moment, however, the strike was not really over. Despite the national settlement, such local issues as overtime and work conditions kept a number of assembly and parts plants closed down, and production was not expected to get into full swing until some time this week...
...Vietnam isn't just a local issue...