Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand in small group, mostly men, mostly shouting. I want to be calm and reasonable and explain. "I'm a third child; where would I be now if my mother had an abortion?" someone calls. Very old man next to me takes my arm. "You're selling yourself out, lady. Make them take out the garbage, do the dirty work... you're selling yourself out." He shakes his head. I try to tell him, yes, I would take out the garbage, and yes, I'm willing to be eligible to fight immoral wars as long...
DESPITE the dire prophecies of violence, Chile remained calm last week in the wake of precedent-shattering elections. In a three-way race for the presidency, the Marxist candidate, Dr. Salvador Allende, had received the highest vote, polling 36% v. 35% for his rightist opponent, former President Jorge Alessandri, and 28% for the candidate of President Eduardo Frei's Christian Democratic Party, Radomiro Tomic. Since no candidate won a popular majority, the Chilean Congress must decide between Allende and Alessandri on Oct. 24. In the meantime, just about everyone in Chile was acting as if Allende had already become...
Most Southerners seemed relieved that the strife was over. In Richmond, where 13,000 of the city's 50,000 pupils are bused to school, Republican Governor Linwood Holton set an example of calm compliance. He personally escorted Daughter Tayloe, 13, to her ninth-grade classroom in the newly integrated John F. Kennedy High School. "It's always hard for a child to change schools," said Holton, whose two other children also attend biracial schools. "But my children go where they are assigned...
Daily Lessons. Said the elated defense attorney, Theodore Koskoff: "The judge was fair, the jury was fair, and, in this case, a black revolutionary was given a fair trial." Equally pleased was Judge Harold M. Mulvey, whose calm demeanor and evenhanded rulings became daily lessons on how well the judicial system can work. Mulvey told the jurors that they had shown "the whole wide world" how earnest they had been about returning a fair verdict. Kingman Brewster, whose remarks in April provoked hot arguments, was silent last week. "Absolutely no comment," he said. "And no comment on my no comment...
Through it all, the jurors remained calm and open-minded, particularly toward McLucas' own testimony. One juror told a reporter for the Hartford Courant: "It was McLucas' testimony that freed him, not his defense. He was a gentle man. He was as honest as the FBI and the New Haven police." During the long deliberations, what many had believed to be a small minority holding out for leniency turned out to have been the majority. Judge Mulvey's "dynamite charge" to the jurors after their fifth day of indecision, requesting the minority to reconsider the equally thoughtful...