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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolution, however, failed to recommend immediate credit status for the course. Instead, it proposed that the U.C. Committee on Courses "take all appropriate steps to obtain credit for the course...
...experimentation that distinguished it during the '20s. The literature of our country appears today to all the world as infinitely poorer, more flat and worthless than it is in reality, than it would look if it were not being restricted. I propose that the congress should demand and obtain the abolition of all censorship-open or concealed-of artistic works...
Each slate of electors is equal in number to the total of the state's U.S. Senators and Representatives, a device that grants small states the same disproportionate share of influence that they obtain from their two Senate votes. New York, with a population 50 times that of Nevada, has only 14 times as many electoral votes. Laws in each state award all its electoral votes to the statewide winner, no matter how large or small his plurality. The winner-take-all device applies whether the popular vote is light or heavy, and in the "one-party states...
Beyond Conventions. Merrill Lynch is fond of noting that it imposes on its employees a set of ethics that goes well beyond the requirements of law or the conventions of Wall Street. For example, no employee is allowed to obtain a bank loan by using securities as collateral. Unless he is about to retire, no officer is permitted to become a director of another company. Alone among big brokers, Merrill Lynch has refused to promote the sale of mutual-fund shares, reasoning that such dealings could lead to a conflict of interest in serving its big and little customers...
...criminal than a boy who plays with make-believe churches is apt to mature into a saint. Yet as a result of the furor over gun controls that followed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, toy guns may soon be much harder to obtain...