Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, introduced into the House by nine state representatives, would amend two nineteenth-century statutes forbidding any individual or group to sell or publicize means of birth control. Those statutes, unlike the Connecticut law recently overturned by the Supreme Court, do not expressly prohibit the use of contraceptives...
...rights bill, even Negro leaders did not expect the President to offer another sweeping civil rights package-but he did. Most controversial of his measures (and certain to run into heavy congressional opposition) was his demand for laws "resting on the fullest constitutional authority of the Federal Government" to prohibit discrimination in housing sales or rentals. Although Johnson spelled out no details, his proposal is much broader than the presidential executive order signed by John Kennedy in 1962, which outlawed discrimination in housing financed by the Federal Housing Authority or the Veterans Administration. It would likely be based...
...most telling argument for the Wolfenden rule is that the present statutes are unenforceable anyway as long as the homosexual acts are performed in private (many of the laws also prohibit the same acts between man and wife). In effect, the arrests that are now made are for public or semipublic acts, including "soliciting," with homosexuals often trapped by plainclothesmen posing as deviates. There is also a constant opportunity for blackmail and for shakedowns by real or phony cops, a practice known as "gayola." Advocates of the Wolfenden position argue further that persecution by society only renders the neurotic homosexual...
Roman Traffic Commissioner Antonio Pala's plan was simple enough: prohibit all private cars from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. from the 35-block, 25-acre heart of the city's shopping center (see map). Shoppers would thus have an "isola pedonale"-a pedestrian island-all to themselves during peak hours save for buses and taxis. All seemed bellissimo when the plan went into effect: children calmly played soccer at the foot of the Spanish steps, where autos once hurtled blithely by; grown-ups ambled wonderingly down the center...
Nayar is ineligible for freshman squash because he attended Bombay University last year. Ivy League rules prohibit students with a year of post-secondary school education from playing on freshman teams...