Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maryland (the "Free State"), which adopted the nation's first antimiscegenation statute in 1661 to keep white women servants from marrying Negro slaves, also passed one of the nation's last such laws in 1935. Aimed at preventing Filipino mess boys at the Naval Academy in Annapolis from taking all-too-willing local brides, it bars marriage of either whites or Negroes with "a member of the Malay race." So, when Jo Ann Kovacs, 25, a white Baltimore nurse, and Meki Toalepai, 26, a handsome singer-dancer-musician from Western Samoa, applied for a marriage license in Baltimore...
Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who lives in Maryland when Congress is in session, protested that half of the population of Hawaii would be considered "impure" in the eyes of Maryland. The law, he added, would make "interesting reading in many parts of Southeast Asia where we talk about democracy...
...operates like "a czar or dictator," and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough says: "It's really dangerous-it's not safe for the country." But Congress can hardly fault the bureau for being profligate when it comes to its own staff. Budget Director Schultze, a former University of Maryland economist, has as his official limousine a 1963 Pontiac that the Internal Revenue Service seized from a Southern bootlegger; it still has a bullet hole in a rear hubcap. The bureau is so economically staffed that it has only 50 men working on the Defense Department's $60 billion...
...instinctive theological savvy about the issues that are facing the church." Out of conviction that Christianity has a duty to speak out on social issues, Blake has done more than merely preach about Negro rights; in 1963 he was arrested for attempting to integrate an amusement park in Maryland. Within his own church, he 'has forcefully backed the "Confession of 1967"-a proposed restatement of the church's faith that may be approved by next year's general assembly...
Most Americans still agree with Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland, that "divorce is always a tragedy no matter how civilized the handling of it, always a confession of human failure, even when it is the sorry better of sorry alternatives." But Americans are more relaxed, tolerant and realistic about divorce than they used to be. Though vestiges of social stigma because of divorce still remain in small U.S. communities, most of the nation long ago decided that a happy divorce, when such can be accomplished, is better than an unhappy marriage...