Word: triggering
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Katzenbach was spurred to action by the fact that while federal examiners were registering an average of 1,900 Negroes a day in the nine counties originally selected for action under the act's "trigger" formula, local registrars elsewhere were still turning away or intimidating most would-be voters...
...were only "little men" acting on orders, and hence were themselves not responsible for the crimes. Demolishing that defense, Judge Hofmeyer declared: "It would be a mistake to say these men are not as guilty because they were only small cogs in the machinery. The man who pulled the trigger as well as the man who gave the order to fire is guilty." But he steered clear of broader questions of political or moral guilt, insisting on evidence of "concrete murder, precisely proved." Even so, there was evidence enough to sentence six men, including Wilhelm Boger, 59, the "Butcher...
...madden ingly long time to move from drafting board to concrete reality. Not this bill. When President Johnson signed it Aug. 6, he promised to enforce it with "dis patch," and Katzenbach went at the job with crackling alacrity. Dead-End Counties. Under the law's "automatic trigger" formula, the Gov ernment is empowered to send federal examiners into Alabama, Alaska, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro lina and Virginia, plus 26 North Caro lina counties and Arizona's Apache County, where literacy tests have been in use and where less than 50% of the voting-age population...
...four in Alabama, three in Louisiana, two in Mississippi-Katzenbach said, the percentage of eligible white citizens on the voting rolls ranges from 65% to 100% -and "in some cases to more than 100% ." The percentage of Negroes registered ranges from 2% to 10% Then Katzenbach gently squeezed the trigger. Federal examiners, all of them Southerners who were employed by the U.S. Civil Service Commission, were sent into each designated county to open offices and begin processing applicants. Their instructions were clear and un mistakable: Register all Negroes except convicted felons or those who fail to meet age or residence...
...tool, which will be tested on later Gemini flights, is designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across the motor housing, has a built-in reaction absorber. When the astronaut presses the trigger, the motor near the handle compresses a spring with a brief quick twist. As the spring expands, it turns the hollow cylinder that surrounds it. Compression and release of the spring occur, alternately, 1,800 times a second. The turning force of the cylindrical mass is what turns the operating...