Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The bill, backed by the Administration, would prohibit discrimination in the selection of federal and state juries, enable the Attorney General to initiate school-desegregation suits, and forbid intimidation or physical harm of civil rights workers or of voters. It would also forbid discrimination in the sale or rental of...
"There is a cyclonic enthusiasm for something other than this bill," said Dirksen. The housing clause would be the first civil rights legislation to hit harder north of the Mason-Dixon line than south of it. From New York to Los Angeles, the law's provision would strike at...
Tireless as proselytizers and tiresome as preachers, Jehovah's Witnesses often make more enemies than converts. Currently, the made-in-America sect is facing a high degree of hostility in Greece. The Witnesses' doctrinal refusal to bear arms defies Greece's universal-conscription law, which has no...
Sponsored by Maryland's Charles McC. Mathias Jr., 44, a liberal Republican serving his third term from a district in which few Negroes reside, the watered-down open-housing provision that finally did pass scared the living daylights out of many Congressmen. With the elections not far off, everyone...
Timely Defense. Not many years ago, such ideas would have been considered heretical by the conservative Southerners who then controlled the A.B.A. But last week the idea of "the law as friend" seemed instead to dominate the 5,250 A.B.A. members meeting at Montreal's slab-sided Queen Elizabeth...