Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because it allows individual states to outlaw the union shop. Nevertheless, Dirksen's filibuster, powered by a hard-core coalition of some 38 Republicans and southern Democrats, seemed insurmountable, for the Administration could not possibly muster the two-thirds majority (67 votes) to invoke cloture. So, unable to stop the show and concerned that it might prove too arduous for elderly Senators, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ruled out the seriocomic, all-day-all-night marathons of filibusters past. "The opposition to repeal is such, and the rules of the Senate are such, that a final disposition...
...sickening seconds before the train ground to a stop, a second coach jumped the track, then a third. For a moment, beneath the dust raised by the wreck, an eerie silence reigned, punctuated only by the screams of the wounded trapped in the shattered cars. Along the track lay bodies, some in piles, some flung as far as 350 feet away. In all, 86 were killed, some 200 seriously injured...
...education was directed chiefly at achieving spiritual and moral purity. Fresh ideas, however, had begun to emerge. In Europe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared that education should strive to prepare a child for the world about him, not for the hereafter. Switzerland's Johann Pestalozzi urged schools to stop the "empty chattering of mere words" and help children to learn through observation, experimentation and reasoning. In the U.S., Horace Mann, contending that education could become "the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization," vastly strengthened the Massachusetts system of free public schools for the poor as well...
...former Vice-President said President Johnson's extralegal pact with Vice-President Humphrey during Johnson's illness is "a good stop-gap, similar to my arrangement with President Eisenhower." However, he said it is "vitally important" for the states to ratify the 25th Amendment, which provides a permanent mechanism for Presidential succession...
Against Cornell this Saturday, Driscoll and Barrett may tighten up a little to stop the Big Red running game. Fullback Bill Wilson, last year's leading ground gainer for Cornell, and halfbacks Pete Larson and Ron Genvase present a formidable attack. Larson and Genvase have combined for 455 yards in three games, averaging over seven yards a carry...