Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plainly the President could not-and, as he made it clear last week, would not -permit a rail strike. The question was how to avoid it. As of last week, the Administration had exhausted the 60-day no-strike injunctions provided under the Railroad Labor Act. To prevent 137,000 workers in six shopcraft unions from tying up 138 railroads by taking a walk, Johnson had to request special legislation from Congress extending the strike deadline by 20 days. By margins of 81 to 1 in the Senate and 396 to 8 in the House, he got what he wanted...
...since World War II, Protestants-increasingly, Catholics as well-have witnessed an unprecedented evolution of their churches' attitude toward marriage and sex. In 1956, the United Lutheran Church in America abolished the denomination's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who showed repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union," declared the delegates, "but God in his love does accept the sinner." The Methodist Social Creed was similarly revised to allow a minister to perform a marriage when the divorced person "is sufficiently aware...
Last week the National Conference of Catholic Bishops gave its blessing to the same procedure in the U.S. Gathered in Chicago, 230 bishops agreed that they would have no objection to any American diocese requesting similar dispensation from Rome. For one thing, it would permit Catholics whose only occasion for relaxation is on Sunday to have some uninterrupted fun. Explained Auxiliary Bishop Gerald McDevitt of Philadelphia: "It would allow a man to have an opportunity for legitimate recreation, such as a day of skiing...
...plan, which would permit any student to take one of his courses pass-fail, makes much more sense. It is worthy of the Faculty's support, and it should get that support sometime within the next few months, so that pass-fail can be a reality by this Fall...
...does not follow, however, that civil rights advocates should permit themselves to be taken in by critics who suggest that America withdraw precipatately from Vietnam. Nor should Dr. King have imputed to President Johnson policy some of the goals held by the Fascist powers in the Spanish Civil War--that is, a desire to "test our latest weapons." Although the Administration's policy may be objectionable for other reasons, such strident rhetoric is not only of doubtful value in rallying Negroes against the present policy, but may alienate moderate whites. Shock tactics will only isolate their proponents in such...