Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SALESMAN, by Alvert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, is in the direct cinema style. Its structure. Characteristically, is determined by following the subject-in this case a door-to-door Bible salesman (Paul Brennan) -with sound recorder and camera. The film opens with Brennan and his three selling teammates in Chicago, and the rest of the film takes place in Florida, where Brennan and his buddies are opening new territory. Under direct hortatory pressure from is sales manager and psychological pressure form his less than sympathetic competitors, the elderly Brennan finds himself unable from his increasingly pathetic reactions...
Chased by El Diablo's troops, Honduran soldiers and civilians alike fled over the nearby Guatemalan border. American Franciscan Father Roderick Brennan, Ocotepeque's parish priest, estimated that he saw 500 dead Hondurans after the battle, 100 of them civilians. El Salvador claimed losses of only 18 soldiers killed. The blue and white flag of El Salvador flew over the nearly deserted Honduran town...
...Holdouts. Though Ainsworth noted that "our conference has no jurisdiction over the Supreme Court," some Justices are already moving to abide voluntarily by the new rules. William J. Brennan Jr. canceled several lectures, prepared to liquidate his $15,000 share in a Virginia real estate venture, and withdrew from the faculty of the Appellate Judges' Seminar, an annual course at the New York University Law School. Incoming Chief Justice Warren Burger has indicated that he will give up his $2,000-a-year fee as a trustee of the Mayo Foundation...
Wholesale Intrusions. In the Davis case, the state contended that because the detention occurred during the investigatory rather than accusatory stage, there was no need to establish probable cause. Not so, wrote Justice William Brennan; to allow such investigatory seizures "would subject unlimited numbers of innocent persons to harassment and ignominy. Nothing is more clear than that the Fourth Amendment was meant to prevent wholesale intrusions on the personal security of our citizenry, whether these intrusions be termed 'arrests' or 'investigatory detentions.' " Since the seizure was improper, Brennan continued, the resulting fingerprints could not be used...
...Brennan replies, that argument presumes that the U.S. and the Soviet Union will maintain their present definitions of the minimum loss they are willing to inflict upon each other...