Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council scheduled an executive meeting for next Monday with Daniel J. Brennan, chief of police, and John J. Curry '19, the City Manager...
After Leahy, the deluge. Terry Brennan took over as coach, did reasonably well (32 wins, 18 losses)?except by Notre Dame standards?and gave way to Joe Kuharich in 1959. Kuharich, a top pro coach with the National Football League's Washington Redskins, was no improvement. Over two seasons, 23 of his players had to be operated on for knee injuries. What's more, Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh (TIME cover, Feb. 9. 1962), was determinedly hauling up the school's academic standards, saw no reason to grant exemptions to football players. The upshot: Kuharich...
Salty Septuagenarian. At 78, Hugo Black has served on the Court for 27 years under five Presidents, been Senior Justice for no less than 19 years. Justices Brennan, Goldberg, Stewart and White are young enough to be his sons. But there has yet to be any serious talk of Black's retiring. He is a wiry little man of boundless energy who plays ferocious tennis almost every day, sometimes four hours at a time. His blue-green eyes sparkle with the light of a mind still aggressive in the pursuit of learning. No other Justice has less formal education...
...swung his way ever since Chief Justice Warren came to Washington in 1953 and pulled together a divided Court that, within a year, unanimously outlawed school segregation. Eisenhower Appointee Warren soon added a solid third vote to the activist bloc of Black and William O. Douglas. In William J. Brennan Jr., another Ike appointee, the bloc picked up a fairly dependable fourth vote. The decisive fifth came in 1962, when the ailing judicial restrainer, Felix Frankfurter, retired, to be succeeded by President Kennedy's gung-ho Labor Secretary, Arthur Goldberg...
...description of the assassin had already been broadcast three times by police on the basis of a report from Eyewitness Howard Brennan. At 1:15 p.m., Officer Tippit saw Oswald and called him to his squad car. Oswald walked over to the window vent, spoke briefly. Tippit got out, started toward the front of the car. Oswald shot Tippit four times with his revolver. Tippit was dead before he hit the ground. Says the Commission: "At least 12 persons saw the man with the revolver in the vicinity of the Tippit crime scene at or immediately after the shooting...