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...swimming pool. In restaurants, waitresses "accidentally" spill coffee on Negroes, overcharge them or simply ignore them. Nonetheless, Justice Department officials are pleased by the extent of voluntary compliance with the rights law. "It all depends upon how you look at it," said one. "If you measure it from the standpoint of 100% perfection, you get one picture. If you measure it from where we were to where we are, then you get a remarkable change of attitude...
...millions of watts), not in megavolts. And anyone with a feel for electric power systems would immediately recognize 1,500 megavolts (1,500,000,000 volts) as an impossibly high voltage in any case. TIME was not alone in having this problem. Your account was more accurate from the standpoint of terminology and general understanding than most of the television coverage and newspaper accounts of the event...
...nomination of Francis X. Morrissey to the U.S. district court has been approved by the Judiciary Committee, and his appointment now awaits the consent of the Senate. But there is good reason for agreeing with the American Bar Association that "from the standpoint of legal training, legal experience and legal ability," Morrissey is unqualified for the federal bench...
President Johnson has magnanimously offered to open U.S. gates to Cuban refugees and all "oppressed peoples." Castro's decision to liberalize Cuban emigration policy left the President no political alternative. From a humanitarian standpoint, however, our economic system and legal code are not geared to the large scale influx of Cubans which may follow...
...high hopes for the bill's long-range effects. If it is passed by the Senate as a four-year program, he says, "by 1970 we'll have Agriculture's house in order." Not likely, says Shuman. "It is bad legislation," he maintains. "From the standpoint of farmers, this complicated monstrosity won't increase income. It will simply increase the dependence of farmers on an annual dole of payments and subsidies from Congress...