Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test ban treaty that was negotiated in Moscow is a rare achievement in human history. Although limited in scope, when compared with the unlimited dangers of uncontrolled nuclear explosions and nuclear war it is an important step toward peace...
...election, which need not be held until fall 1964. That, to the Lords, looked suspiciously like a maneuver to keep Hailsham from getting into the political swim, presumably engineered by some of his rivals for the prime ministership-or even by Harold Macmillan, who is sounding increasingly reluctant to step down. When the bill reached the Lords, they voted to amend it to make it effective as soon as the Queen approved. To avoid a fuss, the Tory Party went along with the amendment in the Commons...
First is a transfer of state administrative officers to the quasi-judicial category, a step that would permit the governor to appoint all his administrative officers. Greenwald said the major fault with the present system is that the governor does not have the time to battle with each antagonistic administrative head. As an example, he pointed out that if Gov. Peabody wanted to remove a powerful official of the turnpike authority it would take practically his entire two-year term...
...Powell is right, if he means that the Negro must stand primarily on his own personal and collective powers to help to equalize his position of citizenship in the American stream of life. He is wrong, if he asserts that the liberal or fairminded white person must now "step-aside" or "step-down," to let the Negro leaders alone fight for Civil Rights...
...Negro is struggling to realize through constitutional processes, are the same Civil Rights that every American has a moral and civic duty to uphold. There is no racial monopoly on these rights and duties. How can any American, committed to these rights for every other American, be expected to "step-aside" or "step-down" in this crucial period in America's effort to realize its full potential for the cause of freedom within the frame-work of law? I would ask Representative Powell to reconsider his thinking on this issue, and I am sure, being a reasonable...