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Highway Patrol. FCC rules prohibit anything but messages of a substantive nature on CB. But that scarcely diminishes the CBers' compulsion to put out CQ ("Anybody listening?") calls, to discuss endlessly the merits of their equipment, to exchange recipes or just to chat...
...Tenth Amendment reserves to the states only powers that the Constitution does not prohibit; the 14th Amendment prohibits any state from depriving any person of "life, liberty or property without due process of law," and from denying any person "the equal protection of the laws." In 1954 the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment. In keeping with that decision, James Meredith's right to attend Ole Miss was affirmed by a federal district court, confirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and upheld by Justice Hugo Black, speaking with...
Gold for Ballast. Saxon's wall shaker was a proposal to allow national banks to set up branches within 25 miles of their home offices, though laws in 34 states expressly restrict or prohibit branch banking, even by nationally chartered banks. Left at a competitive disadvantage, most bankers fear, state-chartered banks would immediately shift to national charters, and soon only a single, nationally supervised banking system would survive. This, they argue, would destroy the cherished "dual system" of banking, with its checks and balances against heavy-handed regulation. Saxon's argument: branching restrictions merely protect well-entrenched...
...White House briefing, this means the U.S. should not intervene directly against Cuba because it might inspire Khrushchev to heat up other cold war trouble spots-Berlin, Laos, South Viet Nam. As policy, this thinking amounts to absolute sterility. For, carried to its logical extreme, it would prohibit the U.S. from taking effective action against Communist aggression anywhere...
...Seminar attempts to attract people whose normal activities prevent extended periods of absence from their own countries and thus prohibit them from taking part in existing exchange programs. Several of the participants are members of parliaments and political leaders in their own nations...