Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since...
Unroofed Hall. The Christian Democratic Party was both the villain and the victim of the messy election. Enabled to rule Italy only by joining in coalition with Pietro Nenni's Socialists, the Christian Democrats were determined to elect one of their own party President. Antonio Segni, who had resigned in December because of ill health, had shown that the office was not merely ornamental but could also be a position of influence and, on occasion, of real power...
...Shakespearean festival." Today, sensational murder trials still draw S.R.O. audiences. But at a time when everyone frets over rising crime, hardly anyone attends the normal felony trial, to say nothing of misdemeanors. From where he sits in Texas, a state that once loved litigation even more than football, San Antonio's Criminal Court Judge Archie Brown flatly says: "The empty courtroom is a national problem that indicates indifference to human rights...
...criminal trials a year in Bexar County (San Antonio), only half a dozen attract enough spectators to make judges even aware of their presence. Another 15 or so attract from two to eight people. As Judge Brown sees it, empty courtrooms adversely affect jurors. Concluding that no one cares, "a juror may be tempted to lay on a heavy sentence." Conversely, "he may decide that no one thinks the crime is serious and then assess a light sentence." Judge Brown is troubled: "When a man's liberty or life is at stake in my court, I like to think...
...Theirs." Many another Texan apparently shares Brown's concern. "People no longer identify with the law," says Sociologist O. Z. White of San Antonio's Trinity University. "The old-timer felt that every trial was his-he was the people. Now it is 'their' trial, not 'ours.' " Atlanta's Superior Court Judge Luther Alverson even suggests that declining trial attendance may contribute to rising crime. "I do not think it is good for people to be removed from the realities of what goes on from day to day in our cities...