Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitor flew in with a flourish. His pink face and silver hair gleamed above polished cowboy boots and a grand, fur-collared overcoat. San Francisco Lawyer Melvin Mouron Belli had come to Dallas to defend Jack Ruby, the only man ever to commit a murder while the whole nation watched. Now, whether or not Judge Joe Brantley Brown decides to let live TV turn the trial into a flamboyant show, a flamboyant courtroom drama is already a certainty. "We will plead him not guilty by reason of insanity," announced Belli after a two-hour interview with his newest client...
...really possible to defend any program of General Education in a thousand words, and it has not been my intention to do so. Rather, I am trying to emphasize that while a misunderstanding about science caused difficulty in the original program, it would be a error to over-correct that original error and cleave too closely to the scientist's concern for methods without a careful consideration of a program rather like that recommended by General Education in a for the a program of several Education a makes its meet of its view of the relation between academic education...
...Harvard Fencing Team will face Holy Cross this afternoon in the L.A.B. The swordsmen will defend a 3-2 record after dropping a close contest against C.C.N.Y. last week. The 15-12 loss in New York marked the closest the Crimson has come to overturning the Beaver team and promises a strong showing in today's meet...
...losers in peace and no victors in war," Johnson said, "we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. We must be pre pared at one and the same time for both the confrontation of power and the limitation of power. We must be ready to defend the national interest and to negotiate the common interest. Those who test our courage will find it honorable. We will demonstrate anew that the strong can be just in the use of strength, and the just can be strong in the defense of justice...
...insanity. In many states, court procedures governing the criminally insane are also being overhauled. After Howard Pierson's 1935 confession, he was brought to court, not to determine whether he was deranged while committing his crime, but to decide first whether he was men tally competent to defend himself against a charge of murder. The court ruled that...