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Actually, the bill had been in the congressional works for months before King's assassination. Passed by the House last summer as a comparatively toothless measure to protect civil rights workers, the measure acquired its incisors in the Senate, where a Republican-Democratic liberal coalition, improbably abetted by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pushed through the open-housing provision and sent the much expanded package back across Capitol Hill to the House...
...self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted in 1958 as a code for the entire federal establishment is little more than an inside joke. One of the toothless injunctions requires "a full day's labor for a full...
Endocrinologist Greep first became involved in dental research when he discovered a toothless rat during some experiments on pituitary glands. He breeded a strain of toothless rats, and moved on to other problems of tooth development...
Harvard's worst freshman wrestling team ever hopes to avoid a losing season by beating Yale this Saturday in New Haven. The Crimson takes a dismal 3-4-1 record into the contest, while the toothless Bullpups have not won a match in six tries...
Risk of Death. Just after midnight three weeks ago, some 30 black-clad guerrillas filtered into the tiny town of Long Vinh, 75 miles south of Saigon. They quickly rounded up all 121 people in one area of the village and marched them off, sparing not even a toothless, crippled and nearly blind woman whom one guerrilla carried away on his back. During the march to a Viet Cong camp, 14 women and children risked death by dropping out of line and squatting unobserved in the tall rice. When the group reached its destination, eleven men, 33 women...