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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place to go, the peak-hour power buildup reversed its flow, cascaded eastward through two 230,000-volt tie lines across Niagara Gorge. In a wave that lasted only five-sixths of a second, the wild wattage surged into New York State, knocking out the Niagara Falls-Massena main line three seconds later...
...CASTING DEPARTMENT was run by "a lawyer who, like the Colonel, had been in drama at college." Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant." The main problem, the Colonel explained, was keeping jurors from discovering "true character" in the courtroom corridors "when the actor gets off the witness stand...
...Right to Live. To curb criminal racists, the Government has relied on two weak 1870 laws. Originally drafted to support Negro rights, one law (Title 18, Section 242) is the main U.S. weapon against police or any other officials guilty of violating anyone's constitutional rights. Section 242 forbids any person "acting under color of any law" to so deprive any U.S. "inhabitant" or to persecute him by reason of his being "an alien, or by reason of his race or color." But conviction requires proof that the defendant had "specific intent" to deny constitutional rights, and the maximum...
...other law (Section 241) is the main U.S. weapon against anti-civil-rights violence by civilians. Originally designed to encourage Negro voting, that law provides a ten-year rap if "two or more persons conspire" to deprive any person of his federal rights. In 1951, however, an evenly divided (4-4) Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that Section 241 protects only a limited class of federal rights, such as interstate travel. As a result, the U.S. could not use it to enforce a citizen's Fourteenth Amendment rights of due process and equal protection...
This switch only adds to Dudley House's moving problems. Master Crooks and the Dudley House Committee have been working all year on the transferral of Dudley House's main headquarters to Lehman Hall in September...