Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been losing the battle to the A.F.L. All last fall, longtime Giant fans could be found across town at Shea Stadium, watching the New York Jets and their $485,000 quarterback, Joe Namath-whose talent for picking apart pass defenses made him a celebrity on the Manhattan nightclub circuit as well as on the field. Stealing the spotlight from Namath is a tall order for a Methodist minister's son who is married, a father, neither drinks nor smokes and makes speeches for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. But Tarkenton may be just...
...Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Will You Remember) and eight hit musicals from Naughty Marietta to I Married an Angel, films that won them such everlasting fans that Eddy could count on a packed house of appreciative middle-aged folk whenever he appeared on the nightclub circuit; of a stroke suffered in the middle of a performance; in Miami Beach...
...court statement that is "reasonably calculated to affect the outcome of the trial and seriously threatens to have such an effect." That could include newsmen. Editors and even judges bridled at the A.B.A. plan. Judge George C. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit called it "the most dangerous threat to American ideals of free speech and press since the days of Joe McCarthy...
Soft Approach. Equally upset was 79-year-old Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. Medina's group has now issued its own report calling for a "soft" approach that rejects pretrial court control over both the press and the police by means of contempt or any other form of "judicial censorship." Medina urged hands off the press, strictly voluntary codes of police silence, and only a tightened canon of ethics that would put the possible suspension or disbarment...
...draft may not be used to stifle dissent. So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit four weeks ago. But, added Judge Harold Medina, it is still a crime to evade the draft. And the Viet Nam war, in addition to provoking peacenik protesters, has also increased the number of plain draft dodgers. In 1964, 144 men were jailed on draft-dodging charges for an average of 21 months. Last year the number jumped to 266, and the average sentence was 26 months...