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Proposition 14 would not only repeal the Rumford Act. It would also repeal sections of a couple of previously existing state laws against discrimination in housing matters. It would, moreover, in effect put into the California constitution a prohibition against all attempts-whether by state, city or county authorities-to act against any sort of housing discrimination...
...fair wage for doing it" for every person willing and able to work; "another job" for those displaced by technology; increased coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act; increased minimum wage and greater coverage; increased overtime pay; expanded manpower training and retraining programs; efforts to repeal state right-to-work laws; an end to "the present, inequitable restrictions on the right to organize and to strike and picket peaceably." The G.O.P. platform promised "restoration of collective bargaining responsibility to labor and management"; less intervention by third parties-presumably Federal Government officials-in settling labor disputes; and complete reorganization...
...would provide Pierre with a significant head start over G.O.P. Opponent George Murphy, the retired movie-man, and Pierre can use the help. Though he is still the heavy favorite, Salinger has identified himself as a champion of the controversial antidiscrimination Rumford Fair Housing Act. A current battle to repeal it has stirred such soaring passion in Califor nia that he could conceivably become the victim of a white protest vote. At any rate, Pierre would now be able to campaign as the incumbent, with three months of seniority to lay before the voters...
...hours of programming a day on his three "channels." He also needs votes. The sworn foes of subscription TV are so active in California that they have succeeded in placing an initiative on the November ballot, through which voters may vote pay TV out of existence by effecting the repeal of the act that originally sanctioned the subscription project. The foes are chiefly admen, theater operators, owners of commercial TV stations and other subjective warriors, who make the argument that subscription TV may prove to be a Pandora's box. Subscription TV could conceivably choke off free TV, they...
...state legislature in 1965 to reverse its 1962 decision ordering the construction of three underpasses along the tree-lined parkway. The Committee will attempt to mobilize public opinion in areas outside Greater Boston, and thus to bring pressure to bear on the legislators from these areas to vote for repeal...