Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be apparent in coming months as millions of Americans switch TV dials from Sonny and Cher to Sonja and Harald and Liz and Phil spectaculars. The royals have always been polished performers. They have, after all, been in the magic business for a long, long time, and their claim to the copyright on Camelot is, in many ways, as enduring as it ever was. Democracies have long since learned they can live comfortably either with them or without them. But the mystique of nationhood is as elusive of definition as ever, and wherever Kings and Queens still hold scepter...
...hands of Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, an old Franco trusty, and Interior Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Juan Carlos has made an effort to dissociate himself from Franco's "political baggage," as they say in Spain. The Communists reject his regime as one "imposed by Franco from the tomb," but claim that they would cooperate with Juan Carlos' father Don Juan if the latter were restored. For his part...
Some legal experts believe that the press's desire for a total ban on gags is unreasonable. Stanford Constitutionalist Gerald Gunther says the claim that press freedom "is the one absolute right in the Constitution is absolute nonsense." Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, who advised Nebraska officials for their Supreme Court appearance, argues with some persuasion that the mounting need for gags is an inevitable "albatross the press carries around its neck because of its steadily increasing visual impact and immediacy." New York Times Attorney Floyd Abrams sought to rebut this contention before the Justices by citing the trials...
...crowding brouhaha increased in intensity last week as a group of Mather students produced statistics in support of their previously unsubstantiated claim that the University's crowding formula is biased against Mather...
Mather might still be the most crowded House, but not even the students who compiled the data proving this are ready to claim that no crowding problem exists in other Houses. A visit to any of those Houses would quickly dissuade any defenders of that notion...