Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crack criminal defender as well as prosecutor, Director Decker, who was founder of the Army's Judge Advocate General School and of the nation's first independent military judiciary, will siphon much of his Ford Foundation money into model defender agencies in Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia and Washington-"grey area" cities with slum-bred legal problems. Matching funds will go to other cities and counties willing eventually to pay the full bill for embryo defender agencies. Since 90% of court-appointed lawyers are unskilled in criminal law, Project Defender will also support more law-school criminal courses...
...sort of split-level Manhattan setting, the author contrives to make a number of cherished American goals-including sex, booze, wealth, social position, world travel and Broadway fame-sound dull and unprofitable. Glibly cynical, he views his moral wasteland with no moral outrage. He even takes a determined new crack at that old chestnut that has been knocked about for decades in prep school dormitories and Greenwich Village walk-ups: should an Artist give up his Integrity for Commercial Success? Positively not, Mr. Kauffmann...
...Communists, in recent years has been leading his Socialist Party toward the social democracy espoused by Britain's Labor Party. But the way was bitterly blocked by the hard-line Marxist minority in the party's far left. In recent weeks Nenni, as party president, decided to crack the whip, managed to isolate his leftist opposition, even got control of Avanti, the party newspaper -and last week wrote a boldly anti-Communist editorial. But this courageous move cost him heavily: seven party leaders bolted, more threatened to bolt...
...been making the run for three months, charging $428 for economy class round trip, and so profitable has it turned out to be that the airline is adding a second weekly flight. The Chinese Communists are using the Pakistani planes to open the door, at least a tantalizing crack, to Western business and tourist dollars...
...humor falls flat because the actors are trying too hard. Half of them be have as though they are in an elocution match. They are like men trying to crack a bull whip who have not yet got the knack of it. They all seem to believe that if they just say their lines crisply enough, or forcefully enough, they will get a laugh...