Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...grand-jury hearings produce civil rights indictments, many means of protest now widely used on campus-especially those that keep other students from their classes-might face stiff new federal penalties. Control of campus discipline would continue to shift from college officials to civil authorities...
When it comes to sex, the U.S. Government can be as prim as a Victorian maiden aunt. About one-fifth of all federal civil service employees who have been dismissed for misconduct in recent years have been fired because the Government found they had engaged in conduct that was "notorious, scandalous and subject to public censure." Now that policy is under heavy attack on a variety of constitutional and statutory grounds...
...years ago, the Government usually regarded even the possibility of unfavorable publicity as a threat to efficiency. Thus an unmarried woman was fired by the post office for becoming pregnant-a condition that the department's review board later found to be an insufficient cause. The Civil Service Commission retains other notions of convention. While it ignores most violators of fornication laws, it investigates male homosexuals more often than lesbians, whom the commission regards as less repugnant to the public...
...protesting after the Government recently introduced a 33-item questionnaire including the requirement that demonstration leaders list their arrest and conviction records as well as their views on the use of violence before permits would be issued. U.S. District Judge George Hart, a conservative and strict constructionist, surprised many civil libertarians when he struck down 15 of the 33 questions, ruling that the exhaustive questionnaire had a chilling effect on First Amendment freedoms. The Houston Peace Coalition won a similar court victory over city officials who discouraged political parades in the downtown area while granting permits to a University...
...University of Connecticut Labor Economist David Pinsky, the six New England states have lost 53,000 factory jobs. They stand to lose another 150,000 in the next twelve months-50,000 in Connecticut alone. The jobless rate in that state, a leading producer of military supplies since the Civil War, has already risen to 4.5%. In Massachusetts, partly because of lower profits and smaller tax payments by some companies, Boston is running out of the cash necessary to finish three almost-completed projects-the Government Center and two public housing complexes-and four half-done projects...