Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the bill had been in the congressional works for months before King's assassination. Passed by the House last summer as a comparatively toothless measure to protect civil rights workers, the measure acquired its incisors in the Senate, where a Republican-Democratic liberal coalition, improbably abetted by Minority...
The measure contained other titles-two antiriot clauses and language safeguarding the constitutional rights of American Indians-but its crucial provision was for open housing, which will eventually help turn the lock to release Negroes from their imprisoning urban ghettos. Like other recent civil rights bills, the 1968 act carries...
Congress' reaction to the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son was shock, rage and a stiff law: "Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any person who has been unlawfully kidnaped and held for ransom or otherwise, shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person...
The court's reasoning was broad enough to strike down similar jury death-penalty provisions in federal bank-robbery laws and the Atomic Energy Act's national-security section. But it did not affect the constitutionality of capital punishment, currently under broad legal attack. In fact, the court...
Lethal Burst. Even if a respite from the incessant Allied bombing had given them more time, it now seems doubtful that German scientists could have worked their way past their repeated oversights and gaffes. When U.S. troops captured the site of the final uranium pile in Haigerloch, Germany, accompanying U.S...