Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disavowed his budget as too big. The economy slipped toward the worst recession since 1932. After a century of neglect, the problems of the nation's blacks burst forth. In 1954, the Supreme Court finally outlawed school segregation. Though Ike did not help to implement the decision, he did act when he had to, sending troops into Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 to enforce a court-ordered desegregation decree. In October 1957, Russia's success with Sputnik I cast a pall of self-doubt over the entire country?a mood that was ultimately to spur popular support for federal programs...
...knowing that it is wrong. However, many people who can tell right from wrong are nonetheless patients in mental hospitals, and some courts permit more elastic definitions-such as the Durham rule.* If a man is deemed insane under any legal definition, he is not responsible for his criminal act at the time he committed it and therefore cannot be blamed for it. Says U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist John Suarez, "sane or insane is equivalent to guilty or not guilty." While psychiatrists are equipped to give an opinion of a man's mental state, they bridle at being asked...
Drama of Responsibility. One way out of the morass might be to determine first only the factual question of whether a man committed an illegal act. Psychiatrists would enter the legal process later, as Dr. Karl Menninger and others propose, not to testify but to advise the court on how to control dangerous offenders and how to treat and rehabilitate the rest. This solution would end courtroom squabbles over the question of responsibility, but could raise a host of new problems and require a drastic reform in present legal processes. It might, for instance, lead to further disputes about whether...
...stable foreman and the mother of a two-year-old daughter, won at Santa Anita in her second race. She has also been initiated into the perils of her new trade: at Aqueduct two weeks ago, Jockey Willie Lester cut her off out of the gate, an unchivalrous act that caused Tuesdee to finish eighth and earned Willie a ten-day suspension. Sandy Schleiffers, 22, a 4-ft, 11-in., 98-lb. package of determination, learned her trade racing quarter horses at bush tracks. She wears no makeup and keeps her hair close-cropped because "I'm working...
...reform will have to attack special interests all at once if it is to have much chance of enactment. Piecemeal efforts invite public apathy, which makes it easier for Congress to acquiesce to the demands of loophole beneficiaries. When tax-code reform is accomplished, Congress will be free to act on some new and imaginative tax ideas, such as Nixon's plan to offer special incentives for the rebuilding of ghettos and Economist Walter Heller's program for federal-state revenue sharing on a no-strings, per capita basis...