Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Southern segregationists suffered another rebuff last week from the Supreme Court. Last fall, in Holmes v. Alexander, the court told 33 Mississippi school districts to desegregate "at once." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit carried out that order by giving the districts only until Dec. 31. But...
Their reports expose the futility of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925. Designed to limit campaign expenses, the act has never been enforced, and contains so many loopholes that congressional candidates, in effect, often ignore it. Senatorial campaigns can cost more than $1,000,000, yet the law requires...
Saccharin has been known since 1879, and widely used since the early 1900s. Entirely synthetic and unknown in nature, saccharin provides no calories and nothing to elevate the diabetic's blood sugar. Its one drawback is that in many users' mouths it leaves a bitter, aftertaste. The cyclamates...
There has been considerable sympathy on Capitol Hill for doing away with Title II. Hawaii Democratic Senator Daniel K. Inouye, mindful that many Japanese-Americans were shunted off to camps during World War II, has led the attack. Until last week, however, Inouye's cause seemed hopeless. "I was...
Under the bill, divorce would be permitted for such specific reasons as insanity, long-term imprisonment, incest, or if a couple has been separated for five years. This last provision, known already as the "piccolo divorzio" or "little divorce," would aid as many as 1,600,000 Italians estimated to...