Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politicking had already begun. The younger representatives were lobbying vigorously for a share of the chairmanships that in the normal traditions of Vietnamese society would automatically go to their elders. The central Vietnamese, encouraged by General Vinh Loc, II Corps commander, were trying to put together a bloc to protect their interests against the north and the south. All told, some 60 to 70 political parties provided the setting of South Viet Nam's venture into nationhood as the Assembly set to work...
...late in the campaign, Mahoney showed up with his old-time appeal and his always present slogan: Your Home is Your Castle -- Protect It. Sickles had backed the watered-down Mathias Bill in the House and his stand was well-known on the open occupancy question. He soon was saying that he wanted the strongest possible bill the Congress could pass. Finan was forced to take a stand now. He straddled the fence for a long while and finally said he approved of the Mathias Bill, but he said it very quietly...
Second, Lindsay fought uphill battles to establish two controversial institutions to protect the rights of minority groups: a Police Department review board and a set of neighborhood city halls. The review board, now in operation, can only recommend disciplinary action against police officers. It is, nonetheless, vehemently opposed by the Conservative Party and the Policeman's Benevolent Association, which have collected more than 55,000 signatures to put the issue on the November ballot. Lindsay's pet reform, the establishment of neighborhood city halls to handle residents' problems and complaints, was temporarily frustrated by city legislators. The Board of Estimate...
...CLEAN tells it, the villain is Section 311 of the California Penal Code, a 1961 response to the U.S. Supreme Court's famous decision in Roth v. U.S. (1957), which held for the first time that the First Amendment does not protect obscenity because such expression is "utterly without redeeming social importance." Did this mean that "social importance" might save challenged material? The court did not say. Although Roth established other criteria for judging whether alleged obscenity should be protected, social importance was not included. In writing Section 311, however, the California legislature did include that test, thus going...
Monro says that although no figures are available, he is confident Harvard students scored well on the draft test and that this will probably protect them. According to draft officials, an undergraduate who is going to school full-time, making normal progress towards a degree and has not interrupted his education is almost sure to get a deferment provided he is in the upper half of his class or has done well on the test...