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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Development of the Square is not only unavoidable, but also desirable. There has long been a need for more commercial office space, and now the Kennedy Library will require new shops and stores. The question is not how to prohibit new development, but how to control it. Harvard's self-interest is involved--what kind of place will the Square be in 15 or 20 years from now?--but the real issue is broader. Cambridge, more than ever before, will become a national city. The John F. Kennedy Memorial was placed in the heart of Harvard Square to bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Invitation to Chaos | 10/17/1966 | See Source »

...bill, backed by the Administration, would prohibit discrimination in the selection of federal and state juries, enable the Attorney General to initiate school-desegregation suits, and forbid intimidation or physical harm of civil rights workers or of voters. It would also forbid discrimination in the sale or rental of housing by anyone selling or leasing more than three units (other than their own house) in any one year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Changed Climate | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...before Congress, sponsored by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, which would 1) severely limit interstate mail-order handgun shipments; 2) limit the inflow of military-surplus firearms from abroad; 3) ban over-the-counter handgun sales to out-of-state buyers and anybody under 21; and 4) prohibit longarm sales to persons under 18. Invoking the "shocking tragedy" in Austin, President Johnson urged speedy passage "to help prevent the wrong persons from obtaining firearms." Of course, recognizing the "wrong person" is not always possible; Whitman would probably have qualified for his guns even under strict controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A GUN-TOTING NATION | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...although California and Nevada have since passed such statutes. Restrictive legislation, say Administration officials, would only cut off the supply for legitimate research. (This has already partially happened because of LSD's notoriety.) Besides, it is argued, the situation can be handled by merely sharpening existing rules, to prohibit the unregistered manufacture, traffic and sale of LSD and its basic ingredient, lysergic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LSD | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Nevada and California became, on Monday, the first states to legislate against the use of LSD. Both states allow LSD to be employed in scientific research or in supervised medical care, but prohibit unlicensed manufacture, general sale, or possession of the drug...

Author: By Stephen I. Kruskall, | Title: Lisa Bieberman Held on Charge Of Mailing LSD | 6/1/1966 | See Source »

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