Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rhetoric of the policemen telling their version of the story. Here and there, the Daley show attempted to present both sides of the controversy. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade was heard arguing that both demonstrators and police were guilty of excesses. Yet most of the footage chosen was shot from behind police lines. Not once did it suggest that dozens of police removed their badges and name tags to prevent identification and then assaulted demonstrators, newsmen and bystanders...
...apparent in any event that Moscow had chosen once again to make West Germany a cold-war dueling ground. Said one U.S. official: "Before this Administration ends, it will have to deal with another Berlin crisis...
...contains some provisions against corruption unprecedented in modern Greece, including mandatory yearly publication of party financial statements and a ban on conflicts of interest for members of Parliament. Political parties would be made more democratic by a requirement that their leaders be elected in open conventions rather than chosen secretly. The constitution goes into effect as soon as approved-except for guarantees of such individual rights as free speech and free assembly. The government can maintain martial law as long as it likes...
...privileged few. The courts were obeying the Federal Jury Selection Act passed by Congress last March, which called on U.S. District Courts to submit sweeping changes by Sept. 23. The new rules provide a method of random selection from lists of registered voters, guarantee that jurors will be chosen from each county in proportion to its population. In the South, where many thousands of Negroes have registered in recent years, there will now be a vastly increased chance for them to serve on federal juries...
...Stanley Kubrick's space odyssey. Moreover, Frayn's first sentence-"Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber"-gets the whole thing off to a bad start. Sure enough, Uncumber has a mother called Frideswide and a father called Aelfric. The coyly chosen names and the uneasy use of the future tense suggest a particularly tiresome and traditionally British kind of whimsy...