Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heeding the counsel of both Pat Brown and Dick Nixon. California defeated 3 to 2 a scheme that would have allowed grand juries and a flock of state and federal boards and officials to pin the label "Communist" on any organization. In effect, the proposal would have turned grand juries into judges as well as accusers. The leader of the fight for the amendment, which the Los Angeles Times called "intolerable to free men," was whiskery Actor Walter (The Real McCoys) Brennan. who rounded up nearly a million signatures to get the plan on the ballot...
Virginia easily approved a scheme to allow two-fifths of the general assembly to make temporary laws if nuclear attack wiped out a majority of legislators. But Rhode Island passed a measure that sets up an emergency chain of command in case such disaster obliterates top officials. The surprising opposition to this praiseworthy plan caused Major General John M. McGreevy. state civil defense director, to shrug: "I don't think the voters knew what was involved here...
...ready to give serious consideration to the creation of a genuinely multilateral medium-range ballistic missile force, fully coordinated with the other deterrent forces of NATO." Ball even suggested that the U.S. is already "in the process" of supplying ideas and information toward establishment of such a scheme. Still unanswered: whether the U.S. will eventually share its nuclear secrets with Europe...
Novelist Bell writes this way, and it must have seemed to him that the technique was ideally suited to his scheme, which was to portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their...
...things are handled now, the C.L.G.S. is awarded automatically and without fuss. There is no reason to change this happy scheme...