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...mere royalty. At the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, C. Day Lewis, Betjeman's predecessor, had to make do with "You princely babe, you pretty dear/ For you we bring/ The birthday honors of the quickening year." He could have done worse. When the future Edward VII lay ill at the turn of the century, Laureate Alfred Austin wrote: "Along the wires the electric message came/ He is no better, he is much the same...
...Canterbury, the Most Rev. F. Donald Coggan, endorsed the agreement; they simply approved its publication for discussion. Not until the 1980s is the commission expected to draft its final proposal for ending the split, which began 4% centuries ago when King Henry VIII rejected the authority of Pope Clement VII so that an autonomous Church of England would grant an annulment of his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon...
...very significant component of the Civil Rights Act is Title VII, Executive Order 11246, Revised Order 4, appropriately known as Affirmative Action...
...federal courts of appeals had already addressed the question, and all agreed: employers who excluded pregnancy from disability insurance programs violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and were guilty of sex discrimination. Last week the Supreme Court rejected that conclusion, voting 6 to 3 that companies do not discriminate merely because they decline to compensate employees unable to work because of pregnancy. On behalf of the majority, Justice William Rehnquist pointed out that such plans are "nothing more than an insurance package, which covers some risks, but excludes others." Rehnquist also cited the lower court...
...controversy arose at a General Electric plant in Salem, Va., where seven women filed suit in 1972, charging that GE's refusal to grant disability benefits for pregnancy discriminated against female workers and thus violated Title VII. The company maintained that its policy had nothing to do with sex discrimination; GE said it just could not afford a disability insurance plan covering pregnancy...