Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White and William Brennan-noted that because the agents' warrant authorized them to confiscate only gambling equipment, Stanley had also been the victim of an illegal search. The rest of the court, in an opinion written by Justice Thurgood Marshall, struck down Stanley's conviction for other, broader reasons. The constitutional right to "receive information and ideas," wrote Marshall, takes on an "added dimension" in the privacy of a man's home. "If the First Amendment means anything," Marshall continued, "it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house...
Harvard University is now and always will be as much the property of its student body as of the Corporation. We must no longer tolerate from the Corporation such callous and irresponsible conduct, conduct inimical to the interests of every segment of the University community, as well as the broader external community. More than this, we cannot allow any recurrences of this conduct. Even if the Corporation were to make a complete about face on its policies at this very moment, there would be no guarantee that these policies would not be resumed again tomorrow. Experience has shown that...
Excuse me for having added this coda on a matter much broader than the ROTC issue as such; but I believe that you and the Corporation are entitled to know the degree to which I now feel out of sympathy with many of the very people for whom I must try to speak, if only so that you may correctly evaluate what I have to say in the Capacity. Yours sincerely, Franklin L. Ford President Nathan M. Pusey Massachusetts Hall
...attitudes on the morality of war. Dearden replaced his centralized chancery office with 25 regional vicariates, which will take care of the needs of the archdiocese's 1,500,000 Catholics. The vicars will have the wide powers once reserved to chancery specialists, leaving the archbishop freer for broader pastoral duties...
...broader issues, Nixon believes that private enterprise should play a larger role in solving the nation's social problems. But he has run into opposition to his plans for offering tax incentives to businessmen who sponsor job retraining and black-capitalism projects. Congressional Democrats consider the idea a "backdoor raid" on the Treasury, a disguised form of Government spending. Some businessmen also fault the incentives. Ben Heineman, president of Northwest Industries and a Democrat, fears that if business were to receive tax subsidies but fail to root out social problems, it "could be set up as the goat...