Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y., John Drew Theater: Vicki Cummings and Kendall Clark in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd's proposal allowing workers to retire at 60 instead of 62 with two-thirds of the maximum retirement benefits. Byrd argued that something had to be done for workers in the "twilight zone," estimated that of 3,500,000 Americans now eligible to retire...
While the Republicans blushed, California Democrat James Gorman said: "I must confess that when the venerable gentleman from Virginia espouses a voting rights bill, my overly suspicious nature raises questions." House Speaker John W. McCormack mused that the Southerners had put the Republicans "in a very untenable position...
...thorniest item, however, is one that is not in the Senate bill-a House-approved ban of the poll tax for state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas. Although such a ban was strongly urged by Teddy and Bobby Kennedy, the Senate rejected it. Under pressure from House liberals, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, floor manager for the bill, supported the ban, though it caused him some embarrassment. Back in 1961, Celler opposed eliminating the poll tax by statute, proposed doing so by constitutional amendment instead. Last week Louisiana Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr. suggested that Celler...
Nowhere does the new law promise more trouble than in its ruling against sex discrimination-in everything from help-wanted ads to promotions within firms. Virginia's Representative Howard Smith slipped the sex provision into the bill in an attempt to delay voting on the measure. Presumably, he hoped that his fellow male Congressmen would boggle at granting equal employment rights to women. There was some opposition-New York's Representative Emanuel Celler worried that to give women equal rights might affect just about every legal dealing between men and women-from divorce and property settlements to statutory...