Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of these controversies will ever be the same again, at least for the balance of Nixon's term, and one hopes for longer. Congress is stronger than it was a month ago. The courts are stronger. The citizen's rights of dissent and skepticism are fortified...
...weakness was his lack of firsthand knowledge of the land and people outside Saigon. He spoke neither French nor Vietnamese. He learned about Viet Nam largely through briefings, refined and delivered by optimistic senior staffers who drew their information from men in the field but filtered out doubt and dissent...
...Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the man who helped devise the controversial designated-hitter rule, has worked up another idea to give new punch to the old game. He wants umpires to take a cooler attitude toward the heated attacks of players and managers who dissent from a call. Free and open discussion, says Kuhn, is "the American way." Though Kuhn has not yet specified what indignities short of an uppercut should now be endured in the name of free speech, the new permissiveness might help revive the declining art of umpire baiting. Take the case of Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky...
...University's stand against requiring G.E. to disclose its Defense Department contracts and to study ways of converting to peacetime production provoked student criticism, but on the Corporation's subcommittee on shareholder responsibility itself, the only dissent came on the votes against managements...
...upper-class families, which is not only grossly unfair but unfortunate in that it is conducive to greater uniformity within the University. Scholarships are to be awarded by the various departments on a "merit" basis, which can only lead to a suppression of academic (not to mention political) dissent, as students race with each other to please the appropriate members of the Faculty. There will be no aid beyond the fifth year, which means that teaching fellows will be less interested in undergraduates and more concerned with getting their own work completed in time...