Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again entered the gubernatorial primary race this year, few Marylanders took him seriously. This time, however, Mahoney, 64, was canny enough to concentrate his campaign on a single issue touching the pocketbooks and emotions of many voters: the possibility of a state law ban ning racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing...
...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 housing by anyone selling or leasing more than three units (other than their own house) in any one year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried...
...only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick stroll through the Hill, cast an eye at Paris, exclaimed, "My God!" and withdrew the work from the sale...
...piquing little auction-house charade, Christie's directors twice escorted London's National Gallery director, Sir Philip Hendy, past the painting, slyly watched his reaction. Said one later: "He just sat tight like Brer Rabbit and said nuffin'." Hendy was thinking plenty, though. During a silverware sale, a red baize screen was placed just below the picture. While every head in Christie's was presumably turned, Hendy says, "I slipped in behind the screen and spent the entire morning looking at the picture. It was terrific. I thought we had a cinch...
...military service or work in hospitals, conservation, the Peace Corps or "a learning corps," and should exempt "philosophical and political as well as religious" objectors. The convention opposed as "undemocratic" the draft's 2-S classification, which defers students. Another resolution urged the repeal of laws banning the sale of marijuana...