Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare team is now trying to determine if Boston has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Law of 1964, which forbids discrimination in federally-aided programs. The law does not prohibit de facto segregation, only willful segregation of the uneven allocation of resources. Although $34 million in funds were briefly withheld from Chicago this fall, due to fairly blatant violations of the law, they were soon reinstated. In Boston it appears that some white neighborhoods, such as Charleston, receive just as raw a deal in education as does Roxbury...
...House, a $3.25 billion public-works program that extends the regional-aid approach of the Appalachia program to other depressed areas such as the Ozarks and northern New England. The bill now goes to a Senate-House conference. ¶ Refused, by voice vote in the Senate, to prohibit use of U.S. Information Agency funds to film the life story of the President or any other Government official. Republican Senator John J. Williams of Delaware offered the amendment after revealing that about $80,000 of the propaganda agency's funds already have been spent to make a movie variously called...
...Passed, in the Senate, a bill requiring that cigarette packages and cartons carry a warning: "Caution: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health." A provision added to the bill, however, would prohibit the Federal Trade Commission and local or state governments from requiring any warning in cigarette advertisements during the next three years...
...Prohibit sales by federal licensees of all weapons to anyone under 18 years of age, and of pistols and most other firearms to anyone under...
...that the world has suddenly become terribly "humane" about wars, why not use nonlethal gas [April 2] exclusively and prohibit bullets and bombs? I suggest using laughing gas so that war would produce at least one beneficial effect: a great big horselaugh...