Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maryland, ending Villanova's four-year hold on the indoor crown, won the meet easily behind first-place finishes by high-jumper Frank Costello 6 ft. 10 in.), broad-jumper Ed Marks (24-10 3-4), pole-vaulter Tom Gagner (15-4), and shot-putter Ernie Hearon...
State Senator Verda Welcome, the only Negro in Maryland's upper house, immediately introduced a bill to abolish the miscegenation statute, but her repealer was given little chance in a legislature still dominated by rural, Dixie-oriented lawmakers. The Maryland law and similar statutes in 17 other states (all Southern or border states except Wyoming) may be killed only when miscegenation is considered squarely by the Supreme Court, which has thus far avoided the constitutional question involved. As for Meki and Jo Ann, they were married last week in the Washington (Episcopal) Cathedral before driving to their new home...
...attack on the U.S. tradition of granting tax exemption to church-owned property, Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair filed a widely watched suit in Maryland that no constitutional scholar can lightly dismiss. Such exemption, she argued, hikes taxes for other property owners and violates the First Amendment because it amounts to taxation in support of religion...
Last week the Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously rebuffed Appellant O'Hair (who now lives in Mexico). But in speaking for Maryland's highest court, Judge Reuben Oppenheimer frankly conceded her basic point. "Economically," he said, religious organizations "are in the same position as though they paid taxes to the city and state and then received back the amounts paid in the form of direct grants." Moreover, "members of the general public pay higher taxes than they would if the exemptions were not in effect...
...secular from the nonsecular in such church activities, said Oppenheimer, but tax exemption is well established for other charitable organizations performing the same kind of services. If religious groups were forced to give up exemptions, he concluded, "serious questions of unconstitutional discrimination might arise." In short, despite logic, Maryland believes that the Constitution can and does permit this particular reality of U.S. life. Whether Maryland is right must still be decided by the Supreme Court-if, and when, it considers Mrs. O'Hair's appeal...