Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split decision, a three-man fed eral court in Atlanta last week upheld the right of Georgia's legislators to refuse to seat Julian Bond, 26, a Negro civil rights worker who had publicly expressed admiration for the courage of draft-card burners and urged Americans to boycott the war in Viet Nam (TIME, Jan. 21). In the court's view, the Georgia house of representatives was justified in construing Bond's public statements as a denial of his lawmaker's oath to support the U.S. and state constitutions...
...dissenting opinion was written by Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle, an Eisenhower appointee, who argued that the Georgia legislators had gone beyond their own constitution in barring Bond -without even considering the "grave" question of whether they had violated the guarantee of free speech. Judge Tuttle noted that the Georgia charter listed very specific qualifications for a lawmaker (age, residence, absence of a criminal record). To allow the legis lature to judge a duly elected member by "undefined, unknown and even constitutionally questionable standards," he said, "shocks not only the judicial, but also the lay sense of justice...
THUNDERBALL. Sean Connery's alter ego, James Bond, is back with a treasury of wishfulfillment and a nickel's worth of plot, something about a couple of stolen atomic bombs...
...university campus. What must be added is that Normandy's alert board of education recognized an opportunity when the Bellerive Country Club offered its soon-to-be-vacated property at a moderate price to the school district. An appreciative group of parents sprang into action to pass a bond issue and necessary tax to purchase the property, and an enterprising group of local public school administrators converted an opportunity into reality by establishing a two-year college, which became the St. Louis Campus of Missouri. And all of this without even as much as a glance in the direction...
...They're a group of people in the same boat as I am -- anyone up at that hour is desperate and there's a certain bond of desperation that makes partners...