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There is something positively un-American about the Boston Marathon. Sure, it is run on Patriots' Day, which is about as American as a day can get. But a Greek started the whole thing. And Britain's King Edward VII dictated the modern distance in 1908, when that year's Olympic started under his balcony at Windsor Castle - which happened to be 26 miles and 385 yards from the finish line. What's more, in Boston, a foreigner almost always wins...
...came to the Senate from the House, which received it from the Judiciary Committee, which constructed it by fusing President Kennedy's moderate bill with the more ambitious ideas of Congressmen Kastenmeier, Celler, and McCulloch. It consists of eleven Titles, treating voting, education, accomodations, and employment. Titles II and VII have aroused the most controversy, but advocates and opponents agree that few of the Titles can be called minor. The most important Titles...
...Title VII--Employment: This Title prohibits discrimination on account of race, religion, or sex by employers or labor unions with over twenty-five employees or members. "Bona fide private clubs" and tax-exempt religious organizations are excluded. The Act also establishes an Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, which would investigate hiring and promotion practices throughout the country, serve as a mediator in informal negotiations between Negro groups and employers, and have the right to file suit against anyone infringing this Title. It would be up to the court to enjoin the employer or union and to decide whether back pay ought...
...Title VI, empowering Washington to cut off federal aid from programs where discrimination is practiced. Russell calls this the "genocide clause," insists that it would kill off "a large section of the country"-namely, the Deep South. The other is Title VII, empowering a Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin or sex (the latter thanks to an amendment offered by House Democrat Howard Smith, more in the spirit of obstruction than of chivalry). Russell contends that the commission would discriminate against what he calls "the average garden variety of American...
...solid sweep of Norman arches, the mist-and-heath-er greens of old England. But in the end it holds interest chiefly as a pageant so prodigally endowed with talent that it can, for example, afford to squander Sir John Gielgud in a minor role as Louis VII of France...