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Faced with the Justice Department's complaint and request for an injunction against Terrell County's registrars, Georgia-born District Judge T. Hoyt Davis reasoned that the Constitution does not forbid racial discrimination by private citizens, and that the Civil Rights Act might permit suits against private citizens as well as state officials. Therefore, ruled he, the act is unconstitutional...
...lectured Judge Davis. "The delicate power of pronouncing an Act of Congress unconstitutional," said he, "is not to be exercised with reference to hypothetical cases." The act was clearly constitutional in its application to Terrell County, ruled Brennan, and Judge Davis must now try the Justice Department's complaint on its merits. U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, who had himself argued the crucial Georgia case before the Supreme Court, jubilantly said the court's decision proved that the Civil Rights Act "is a firm foundation for further congressional action." Relying on its Georgia decision in another voting...
Over Their Heads. In Rockdale, Australia, aldermen who met to discuss a complaint against the noise and low altitude of jets were forced to adjourn five times in two hours while jets passed over and drowned out their discussion...
...have U.S. exports fallen? The popular complaint of businessmen is that the U.S. is being priced out of world markets by rising labor costs...
...owns 100 parakeets). Thin, balding and scholarly looking, he is as inconspicuous as one of his own characters. But his work closely resembles that of another British expert in horror, Saki, particularly in casual bloodthirstiness and ghoulish wit, and he very nearly equals Saki in fiendish invention. His one complaint: "People miss the humor in my stories because they're so intent on being made to squirm...