Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson announced that as the first step in erasing the gulf he would call a White House conference of scholars, Negro leaders and Government officials; their mission may be to find ways of fulfilling economic, educational and social rights. This mission, he said, is "the glorious opportunity of this generation to end the one huge wrong of the American nation-and in so doing to find America for ourselves with the same immense thrill of discovery which gripped those who first began to realize that here, at last, was a home for freedom...
...representatives in 1964). Two weeks later, the State Supreme Court, while agreeing that the present appor tionment was unconstitutional, asserted its own jurisdiction, gave the senate until this July 1 to realign itself. The federal court refused to yield jurisdiction. But the Supreme Court ordered the federal court to step aside and give the Illinois bench "a reasonable time" to achieve reapportionment. - Declined to rule on the constitutionality of an Idaho reapportionment plan, adopted by the legislature last March, and passed the question back to a three-judge federal court...
...place every bus the cops succeeded in pushing off the road. Finally, the army was called out, but its troops proved no more effective: the only way they could get from one riot to another was by helicopter. Faced with absolute chaos, the city council took the only possible step: it humbly rescinded its order and opened the streets once again to' the savage fleet...
...French integristes (conservatives) deeply fear that the reforming spirit of the council could lead to an accommodation with Communism. "We encounter Marxist infiltration at every step in our Christian lives," warns conservative French Novelist Michel de Saint Pierre. Liberal Catholics, by contrast, are convinced that the church must be "on the march"; they are eager to revive the worker-priests and "carry on a dialogue" with Marxism...
Japanese automakers, long secure behind high tariff walls, are bracing for a possible wave of competition from abroad after the country's import quotas are lifted later this year; this will be the first step toward lowering the restrictive 35%-40% duties on foreign cars. Under present tariffs and taxes, for example, a Volkswagen that sells for $1,250 in Germany is marked up to $2,600 in Japan. When tariffs drop, the increased competition could be rough...