Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since his 211,000 votes did not constitute a clear majority, Arnall faces a runoff on Sept. 28 against Atlanta's Lester Maddox, 50, who became a martyr to the segregationist cause by closing down his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta rather than obey the 1964 civil rights law barring racial discrimination in public accommodations. Maddox drew 166,000 votes in an unexpectedly close struggle for second place with State...
...shorts and five fine features. Pursuing ever more strongly a direction evident for more than a decade, the new films showed more freedom of narrative form, more richness of visual vocabulary. The new moviemakers more and more firmly reject the rules of the drama, and more and more sensitively obey the laws of the eye. They mean to write with the lens and not with their pens. The festival's best...
...Still, militant union members were clearly unhappy about the size of the increase and threatened to remain on picket lines until they get more. If they do, they may face a further problem: a 1954 law makes strikers liable, at parliamentary discretion, to jail terms if they refuse to obey an order to return to their jobs. By week's end a nervous government had yet to enforce the threat...
...uncomfortable position. As has happened in the past with striking railroaders, the contract defeat left the Government no choice except to act. But in an election year, when politicians of all stripes are exceedingly sensitive about the labor vote, nobody in Washington wanted to be the one to say "obey...
...Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion raised many unanswered questions. Every suspect must now be warned as soon as he is "deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way." Does this include even a few minutes of street-corner interrogation? How can police obey Miranda's command to furnish lawyers for indigent suspects? Most communities, especially in the South, have neither money nor means to do so. Says Birmingham Chief Jamie Moore: "We don't even have a public-defender system." Yet if no lawyer is available for a suspect who wants...