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...PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Discrimination is forbidden in nearly every hotel, motel, restaurant and theater. Only boardinghouses with five rooms or less and private clubs are specifically excluded. The Attorney General can initiate court action for enforcement, except in 32 states that have public accommodations statutes, where he must first refer complaints to state officials...
Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, has advised Pappenheimer to refer the case to the Lawyer's Committee on Civil Rights. Jerome J. Shestack, a Philadelphia attorney and a director of the group, said yesterday that Weaver will be represented in court by Carsie Hall, a Jackson, Miss., lawyer retained by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee...
...helicopter is essential. It's all right to rent one (CH 5-8641, $125 an hour), but it is vital that you refer to it as a chopper. Go to the ball games in Chavez Ravine, but leave before the seventh inning. Get a pool table, and don't give a party unless you have a mahogany keg on the patio with draft Michelob. Get a Yorkshire terrier. Learn to think. Stay out of toreador pants and stretch pants; wear Jax slacks...
...stepfather, who, when the young earl's mother died in 1608, inherited the sonnets and "got them" for Publisher Thorpe. Rowse points out that "beget" is used twice in Hamlet as meaning simply "to get." The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth. Sonnet 107 therefore could only refer to the Queen's safe survival after the attempt of her Spanish physician, Dr. Lopez, to poison...
Unified Knowledge. According to Chicago's catalogue, social thought now is "understood to refer to the ideas concerning the intellectual and moral foundations of society." According to Economist-Historian John U. Nef, 64, the committee's co-founder chairman, the aim is to combat the kind of blind specialization that an Oxford don once illustrated by boasting: "At last I have written a really good book. Not only will nobody read it. Nobody can read...