Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breakfast at Antietam when they were interrupted by a Union charge; they were so mad that they stopped the superior Yankee force in its tracks. Carter was tickled by the account of how the cannons at Antietam stirred up the hives of bees kept by the farmers. One Pennsylvania regiment had 127 bee stings. The President leaned on the bridge over Antietam Creek where General Burnside with four divisions had been stalled for hours by Robert Toombs with a few hundred of those beloved Georgian sharpshooters...
...Pinto won a $100-million-plus suit against Ford. Needless to say, the cars have been recalled--but apparently Ford didn't get them all. Maybe they didn't try hard enough. Maybe they did. But there are a lot of Pintos, and on Friday, two little girls in Pennsylvania died when the Pinto they were in blew up after being hit from behind. That story ran as a tiny filler on an inside page. No big deal, just two more victims...
...first orders requiring minority hiring goals to remedy discrimination involved the all-white Philadelphia construction trades. In 1969 the U.S. Labor Department established the "Philadelphia Plan," which provided for goals and timetables in minority recruitment in the Philadelphia building trades. The Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania sued, charging that the plan was an unconstitutional quota system and that it violated the Title VII ban on discriminatory hiring. Not so, ruled the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1971, upholding the President's power to attack discrimination through use of preferential remedies. "Clearly the Philadelphia Plan is color-conscious," wrote...
Well, what of the argument that the press enjoys no special privileges under the First Amendment? Says Professor Paul Bender of the University of Pennsylvania law school: "The pattern is not one of depriving the press of its rights, but of not giving the press extra things...
...impressed," Kraft says, "though I thought he didn't have a chance to get the nomination." But Kraft joined the Carter campaign anyway, first as manager of Carter's crucial caucus victory in Iowa, later as director of Carter's climactic primary win in Pennsylvania...