Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss. On a practical basis, they also gave both parties a share of the patronage...
...down the sidewalks of New York with a dazed-looking Silverman in tow. In a ludicrous attempt to offset Bobby's righteous rhetoric and familial charisma, the opposition made the wild charge that Kennedy opposed Klein because Boss Jones is a Negro. Neither this nor the more reasonable argument that Kennedy had entered the fight merely to increase his influence got very far. The vote last week was 70,771 for Silverman to 47,625 for Klein...
...This argument, which was approved by the commission's key subcommittee of theologians and even by the generally conservative Italian members of the Pope's blue ribbon panel of experts, represents a new direction in official Catholic thinking on marriage problems. For that reason, a dissenting minority has objected strongly and urged that the only concession be approval of the pill to help regularize the female menstrual cycle, thus making more reliable the rhythm method of birth control. The final word on the problem is up to Pope Paul, who has categorized the decision as "agonizing...
Basic Needs. Vitamin-and mineral-fortified foods will have to adhere strictly to the rules. They must not be promoted in any way as effective for the treatment or prevention of any disease; also outlawed from now on is any sales pitch depending on the argument that ordinary foods will not supply adequate nutrition, or that much of the U.S. population is suffering from vitamin or mineral deficiencies...
...Boswell gritted. "I still have 25 minutes." Liking his nerve and his sincerity, Rousseau gave Boswell six interviews and sent him on his way with a sackful of quotes. Nine days later, Boswell was interviewing Europe's most famous author-Voltaire. In the course of a furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman feigned a faint to gain a respite. But when Boswell left, they were friends and he was walking on air. "What variety my mind is capable of!" he wrote in his journal. "I have a noble soul...