Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics of Expiation. Yet there it is. In part, it reflects the persistence of the legend surrounding J.F.K.; time seems to enhance rather than diminish the glow of his martyrdom. To the almost 200 Kennedy books, two more were added in recent weeks by exPress Secretary Pierre Salinger and a former J.F.K. buddy, Paul Fay; a "definitive" account of the assassination by William Manchester is scheduled for publication early next year...
...demonstration left the Boston Common at about 12:35 p.m. Saturday, there were about 64 marchers and about 50 policemen protecting them. The size of the police contigent was reduced about a half hour later to several patrol cars and six motorcycles. The march's size, too, began to diminish, and at the end of the day about 25 people remained...
...Argument. Speaking for the five-man majority, Justice Goldberg acknowledged that a right to counsel during questioning might sharply diminish confessions. He quoted the late Justice Robert Jackson's opinion in a prior case: "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances." But, said Goldberg, "this argument cuts two ways. The fact that many confessions are obtained during this period points up its critical nature as a stage when legal aid and advice are surely needed. Our Constitution, unlike some, strikes the balance in favor...
According to Olber, Layzer said yesterday, the light produced by faraway stars should make the night sky intensely bright and hot. Obler reached this conclusion after observing a "shell" of stars at a given distance from the earth. While the brightness of the stars will diminish with the square of their distance, Layzer said. The area of the shell--and thus the number of stars on it--will go up it the same rate...
...Polish national holiday, when thousands of Poles will journey to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, home of the nationally cherished "Black Madonna." The Communist regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which has conducted a running feud with the church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power in Poland. Last week, as the church began the first of its millennium celebrations, the Communists were busy creating every imaginable block and trying to convert the millennium into a purely secular "Polish state" occasion...