Word: arizona
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Warren's driving concern was individual rights for individual Americans. After Brown came a number of rulings against racial discrimination in voting, public parks, housing and other areas. The court virtually wrote a new constitutional code of criminal procedure, with the high point coming in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which accorded a suspect in custody the rights to keep silent and to have an attorney before being interrogated...
...your tintype. Their expectations run more to trained-seal acts and Bobo the Dog-faced Boy, and their minds are thus unconditioned to accept such wonders. True members of the American booboisie, they heckle Dr. Lao and his magician during the performance and walk silently out into the hard Arizona sunlight when it is over. One suspects that Sinclair Lewis' Main Streeters might have done much the same thing...
Editors and publishers are not laughing. Some news executives indeed agree that biased liberals bent on vengeance are using Watergate to bring down an old foe. That is the view, for instance, of Eugene C. Pulliam (Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, Indianapolis Star), Franklin B. Smith (Burlington, Vt, Free Press) and William Loeb (Manchester, N.H., Union Leader...
...figure in this shifting Republican sentiment is Arizona's John Rhodes, the party's respected House leader. Critical of the White House tape transcripts, he had suggested that the President might consider resignation-and was stung by irate letters from party hardliners. Since then, Rhodes has been meeting with Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. "We give them the benefit of our advice, and we're briefed by them," he says. In fact, he is highly influential...
...land. Last year President Nixon called the misuse of land "perhaps the most pressing environmental issue before the nation" and urged Congress to do something about it. The Senate already had passed a bill to encourage states to plan exactly where land-development projects should or should not go. Arizona Democrat Morris Udall introduced a similar bill in the House. But last week, in a 211-to-204 procedural vote, the House refused even to debate the subject, virtually ending any chance of land-use legislation this year...