Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue before a three-judge federal court in Knoxville was a suit by the Tennessee Outdoor Club, which last year received a state charter to found a nudist colony. In the charter's words, the coeducational camp was for the sole purpose of "social, sun, air and water therapy . . . without the confinement of clothing." But before the project could take off, local residents persuaded the Tennessee legislature to pass a law making nudism a misdemeanor...
Majestically arrayed in an ancient blue suit, frayed white shirt and new brown boots, Floyd Handshoe, 51, la bored at a seignorial pace last week, hoeing rocks into potholes in the road. So did half a dozen other unemployed fathers of Handshoe Hollow who have enrolled in a federal make-work project known in the mountains of eastern Kentucky as the Happy Pappies. As they demonstrated the blessings of the poverty program, other local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek...
...drive but to crusade for a law to make racial violence a federal crime. As it happened, the Justice Department was already moving on the problem in its own way. Acting for the first time under a section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the department intervened in a suit in an Alabama federal court alleging systematic exclusion of Negroes from juries in "Bloody Lowndes" County, where twice in the past month all-white juries have exonerated whites in the slaying of civil rights workers...
...interests of prestige, Smith chose a respected tobacco farmer named Winston Field, the best-known of all his candidates, as the Rhodesian Front's first Prime Minister. But Field was not radical enough to suit the party hierarchy. He approved of the Front's demands for independence, but opposed U.D.I. Finally, Smith himself moved into the Dutch-gabled house at 8 Chancellor Avenue, which is the official residence of the Prime Minister...
...president started by thinning out deadwood; only three of 15 deans then ruling still hold their jobs. He brought in his own vice president, Michigan Anthropologist Frederick P. Thieme. In 1964 a teachers' suit, carried to the Supreme Court, killed the loyalty oath and let Odegaard hire capable teachers from near and far. Oppenheimer now appears on campus every so often-most recently early this month, when the National Academy of Sciences picked Washington for its annual meeting...