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This week a Peruvian congressional commission is expected to propose a series of emergency relief measures, including a moratorium on federal taxes. Even if the government exempted fish-meal processors from all taxes, their average $9-a-ton profit (v. an average ,$20 in 1963) would still not cover interest on the industry's $74 million debt...
...Concept. Last week the Supreme Court took a giant step toward resolving the question by agreeing to review its first miscegenation case since 1883, when it upheld an Alabama law against interracial sexual relations (Pace v. Alabama). Now at issue is a Florida law that forbids a man and woman who are not married to each other and are of different races to "habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room...
...much the ruling in McLaughlin and Hoffman v. Florida will affect other state miscegenation laws will not be known until the court hands down its decision next fall. But the tide seems to be running against the old Southern custom. In 1948, the California State Supreme Court ruled California's miscegenation law unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. Antimiscegenation laws have since been repealed in other states; in Nebraska one was wiped off the books only last year. Goal of the N.A.A.C.P. in this case: "Freedom to join in marriage with the person of one's own choice...
Much of the cry to "Get God Back in the Schools" reflects deep misunderstanding of what the court actually said. In Engel v. Vitale (1962), it overruled the required daily recitation of a nondenominational prayer composed by a governmental body, the New York State Board of Regents. In 1963's Murray v. Curlett and Schempp v. School District, it overruled school-required reading of Scripture in Maryland and Pennsylvania. All three decisions were based on what the court deemed to be an inescapable reading of the First Amendment's "establishment" clause. Far from being antireligious, the court simply...
...Hours v. Days. Making a go of it, Lykes fought the Federal Maritime Administration to win the right to become the first U.S. line to design its own ships, though they are partly paid for by federal subsidy. As a result, each Lykes ship is so equipped that it can load and unload all its own cargo without help of dock booms, can "turn around" in port in as few as five or six hours. Efficiency applies at the home office too. Turman rises at 4 a.m., breakfasts with his staff before 7 in the bleak company cafeteria. The early...