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...states. Actually, Johnson has been attempting to disperse responsibility by fostering new partnerships involving federal, state and local governments as well as private enterprise. But he has discovered that responsibility is not always welcomed-a point that Chief Justice Earl Warren made last week when he addressed the opening session of New York State's constitutional convention. "One major factor in the concentration
...arguments are overwhelmingly in favor of home rule. What killed it during the last session and may smother it again this year is public indifference. A few national organizations--the AFL-CIO, ADA, and the League of Women Voters--lobbied for home rule, but not vigorously. Except for the NAACP, the national Negro organizations did not exert grass-roots pressure...
...resignation to become G. Washington, Esq., and where the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, Maryland's legislators of late have been busily writing some modern history. Last week, after decades of stand-pat government, the state's general assembly concluded its most productive, innovative session in memory. As a result, Annapolis-which once was proudly dubbed the Athens of America, but is better known today as Crabtown, after the Chesapeake crustaceans for which it is famed-fairly steamed with bipartisan mutual admiration...
While George watched on television in a nearby office, Lurleen went before a joint session of the legislature to demand that jurisdiction over public education be transferred to the Gover nor's office, which could then use "police power" to foil the courts. Her fiery speech invoked the tired old doctrine of interposition-the theory that a state government has the authority to prevent federal action it deems unconstitutional-and conjured up visions of parents being arrested wholesale by federal agents and of imprisonment without trial for anyone who speaks against the court. All Alabamians must "resist in every...
...million shares traded in the first quarter of 1966. Average daily volume, now 9,900,000 shares, has jumped 30% over 1966's 7,500,000 shares. On 32 of the quarter's 62 trading days, volume has marched past 10 million, and hardly a session now goes by when the Big Board's high-speed ticker does not at some point fall behind the pace...