Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officially accept some of Black's pet views of the Constitution, it has nonetheless swung his way ever since Chief Justice Warren came to Washington in 1953 and pulled together a divided Court that, within a year, unanimously outlawed school segregation. Eisenhower Appointee Warren soon added a solid third vote to the activist bloc of Black and William O. Douglas. In William J. Brennan Jr., another Ike appointee, the bloc picked up a fairly dependable fourth vote. The decisive fifth came in 1962, when the ailing judicial restrainer, Felix Frankfurter, retired, to be succeeded by President Kennedy...
...laws are on the books. Among them: one of Latin America's best agrarian reforms for resettling 1,000,000 peasants on undeveloped land, a free-education bill that will take a youngster from elementary school through college, and a record $770 million budget to make a solid start on the programs. "When both sides want to agree," says Belaúnde reasonably, "agreement is no problem...
...stripped Cassius of his title when he signed in Boston for a Nov. 16 rematch with Sonny Listen. Unfazed, the Lip zipped to Manhattan to bedizen his ample middle with a $500 gold-plated championship belt from Ring Magazine. Verbally, he still stings like a bee. Gazing at the solid silver waistband Charley Mitchell won for going a bare-knuckle 39 rounds against John L. Sullivan in 1888, Muhammad AH bumbled: "They got cheap with the belts. They used to make them better." Maybe they did the fighters...
...candidacy in itself has produced several rather unique situations. Certainly it is the first time in a goodly number of years such an arch conservative has captured a party's presidential nomination and also taken over the party machinery itself. Goldwater is, peculiarly, threatening to break up the Solid South for the first time in a hundred years against the first Southern president in the same period of time...
...candidacy in itself has produced several rather unique situations. Certainly it is the first time in a goodly number of years such an arch conservative has captured a party's presidential nomination and also taken over the party machinery itself. Goldwater is, peculiarly, threatening to break up the Solid South for the first time in a hundred years against the first Southern president in the same period of time...