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...bluntly refused to provide protection to the marchers. He reckoned that it would cost $400,000 and require 6,171 men to police the march route, demanded "federal civil authorities" to do the job because Alabama simply could not afford to. Obviously, Wallace was throwing to the President the onus of having to call out the Alabama National Guard. The President accepted the challenge and from the LBJ Ranch issued the orders that sent the Guard onto the parade route. "Responsibility for maintaining law and order in our federal system properly rests with state and local governments," the President scornfully...
...keep in touch with grass-roots concerns. Some annoying habits of union leaders that are ignored so long as they deliver-frequent travel, conspicuously high living-begin to pall when there is less left to deliver. Unionists call this the "high-hat issue" or "uppity unionism." To escape its onus, one U.A.W. troubleshooter in Pittsburgh refuses to wear white shirts, and a top officer of a food employees union says: "I wouldn't drive a Cadillac these days if you gave...
...only greatly reduce the cost of jailing pre-trial prisoners-$10 million annually in New York City-but would also give defendants a better chance to prepare their defense, allow them to continue to work and support their families while awaiting trial, and avoid placing on the unconvicted the onus of serving time...
...quick break on the grounds that 1) if Red China sticks to its longstanding position that no country may have diplomats in both Peking and Taipei (a view repeated last week by barnstorming Red Premier Chou En-lai in Mali), De Gaulle would be acutely embarrassed and the onus will be on the Communists; 2) if Peking accepts a "two-China" policy, it would be a major Red switch that weakens phony Red claims to Formosa; 3) a two-China policy would also ease U.S. diplomatic problems in the United Nations, where French recognition could swing a majority vote...
...looking for a student who theoretically should exist in every department," says Classicist David Grene. "I don't think we get better students than the departments, but we get fewer bad, dull ones. The onus of the work is on the student. He must teach himself...