Word: speed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...round-the-clock police protection and to take an unlisted telephone number, is the latest addition to an honor roll without precedent in U.S. legal annals. In the wake of its desegregation decision of 1954, the Supreme Court empowered Federal District judges to set the timing of "all deliberate speed," to approve or veto school-board desegregation plans, and to use every court power to see that integration was carried out. Many of the federal judges saddled with civil rights burdens were Southerners whose personal emotions ran contrary to the law they had to implement; many acted at the sacrifice...
...them as the first order of business to think about his oft-proposed changes in Senate rules and procedures. One prime goal: to get a softening of the famous Rule 22, which requires a two-thirds vote of all Senate members to cut off filibusters. Other Clark proposals would speed the legislative processes and undercut the traditional power of seniority (which gives the South a death grip on committee chairmanships). Clark's newest proposal was to fill Democratic leadership positions with Senators from the big industrial states, on the reasoning that it was these states that gave Kennedy...
Leverett House Committee; Crimson; PBH Hospitals Committee; Debate Council; National Indoor Speed Skating Champion, 1968; Freshman soccer; Varsity Cross Country; Junior Usher; Hasty Pudding...
...speed factor, especially on defense, ruined the Crimson last year, Wilson is optimistic that this year's team will have a tighter defense and a better fast break with added swiftness...
Tangeman is a good feeder, and his speed and quick hands on defense are one of Wilson's prime reasons for optimism. The center position will be shared by letterman Danner and sophomore Lynch, the tallest first-liner...