Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the South, clubmanship has become the most popular way to avoid compliance with the discrimination-banning public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Even a "membership-only" hamburger joint is technically beyond reach of the law. "You've got to prove it's a sham," says John Doar, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "It's more than a matter of having a Negro testify that he was refused service. You've got to have a white person testify that he was served"-without actually being, a member...
...import of Rhodesian chrome. Then came a ban on cash-and-carry trade, which supplemented an earlier crackdown on credit deals. Finally, having presumably run out of trade barriers, Wilson decided to test his thesis that most of the Rhodesian civil service is loyal to the Crown, and will prove it if given the chance...
Many Americans suspect that they are descended from European royalty and often hire genealogists to prove it. By the same token, many Europeans are convinced that they have a relative who emigrated to America and became a millionaire. A few are right. The rest provide employment for lawyers, archivists and private detectives-especially in France, where the search for several legacies has gone on for generations. None of them is more fabulous than that of Jean-Pierre Mallet, who, so the story goes, died childless in 1818 in Winooski, Vt., leaving behind properties that stretched from the shores of Lake...
...Paris last week, while a dozen ill-dressed followers waited anxiously in the hall outside his chamber, Judge André Laly tried to conduct a pretrial interrogation of the princess. What documents did she have to prove the existence of the inheritance? "I don't have any official documents," she explained. "That's why I founded the union-to find the documents." The weary judge concluded that the next step in the case would be a psychiatric examination. But this was not likely to discourage all the other Mallets. One scholar has concluded that the real Jean-Pierre...
...major customers for Venezuelan fuel oil-mainly power utilities and other industries of the U.S. East Coast-will shift to coal or atomic energy. But, says Manuel Perez Guerrero, Venezuela's skeptical Minister of Mines: "That's something that the companies will have to prove." Anyway, the Venezuelans seem willing to sell less oil for more money. In the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), they have been leading a campaign to assign production quotas in order to cut the worldwide glut of oil and thus strengthen prices...