Word: blatants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret Ingredient. Taking no chances, the Krupa machine unblushingly set out to steal the election (see box). The skulduggery was so blatant that it rebounded in Hatcher's favor, bringing cash and services from citizens far from Lake County...
...country; no bank can open a branch farther than 25 miles from its home office, or in a town where another bank is already established. The rules are so strict that the recent acquisitions made by a crew of young businessmen known as "the Parsons Group" seem a blatant invitation to the bank examiners. In the past three years, Donald H. Parsons, 37, and his 15 associates, have bought control of seven Michigan banks. Last week the syndicate took over an eighth...
...result, an entire issue of the Mob's newspaper, the Mobilizer News, was rewritten and a tub-thumping editorial replaced by a quieter explanation of the march's purpose, written by Co-Chairman Sidney M. Peck, a Cleveland sociologist. Dellinger reversed his ground and urged avoidance of blatant lawbreaking, but at the same time was careful to disown in advance any responsibility for the more vigorous forms of protest. Thus a befuzzed line was drawn between "dissent" and "resistance" in the complex vocabulary of the American peace movement. As Dellinger later said, demonstrators could not be counted...
...Yourself Kit. It was a blatant bit of buckpassing. Moreover, only a week earlier the House had passed a pay increase for civilian employees that was more generous than the Administration had requested. That bill singled out the postal workers, who have the most powerful civil service lobby, for a larger raise than other groups and denied employees of the Office of Economic Opportunity any raise at all. Many of the most economy-minded Congressmen protested when the Administration recently imposed temporary freezes on certain construction projects. In the course of a six-hour debate last week, members loyal...
More complicated objections to limited legislation are now being raised by Catholic clerics, who regard Colorado-style laws as a blatant c^se of state-approved eugenics, never before established in U.S. law. To abort a rubella (German measles) victim, they say, is to rely on the purely statistical chance (average odds: 50-50) that her child may be defective-and to doom a possibly perfect baby in the process. To abort a fetus produced by rape or incest, they say, is to execute the most innocent partv in the trianele purely for the mother's social convenience. Even...