Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chad Gordon, assistant professor of Sociology, feels that the reasons underlying the panty raids are too complex to be described merely as tradition or reaction to pressure. "There is a definite tradition of 'letting off steam'," he admitted. He added that every incoming class feels a need to uphold the custom for fear of being considered "dull...
Absorbed Rights. In the case that produced last week's landmark decision, Texas had refused to uphold that right. Accused of a $375 holdup, Bob Granville Pointer was haled before a preliminary hearing in Houston. He had no lawyer and did not cross-examine his alleged victim, who then moved to California and did not appear at Pointer's trial. Vainly invoking the confrontation clause, Pointer was convicted on the transcript of the absent victim's untested testimony. Because he could have cross-examined at the preliminary hearing, the state's highest court upheld his conviction...
Great Wave. When he ad-libbed that he had helped to enact three civil rights bills, his listeners gave him another handsome round, and did so again when he called on his fellow leaders to "now act in obedience" to their oaths to uphold the Constitution. By now the applause came after almost every sentence, as Johnson laid out his purpose: "I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers to the right to vote," which "will provide for citizens to be registered by officials of the United States Government" when it proves necessary...
Mayor Earl D. James appealed to Montgomery's 150,000 residents to uphold law and order "so our image will remain untarnished before the world...
...flared (TIME, Feb. 5), and the Cabinet ministers from South India threatened to resign unless English was fully restored. But Shastri also faced angry pressure from the Hindi side of his verbally violent party. Last week 106 Congress Party M.P.s from North India petitioned the government-in English-to uphold Hindi as the only official language. Fanatics of the pro-Hindi Jan Sangh Party prowled the streets of Delhi, blotting out English signs with coal...