Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legal morality-if it ever existed in the U.S.-is dead, as your story on Edward Bennett Williams [Feb. 10] proves. Lawyers are not concerned with the guilt or innocence of their clients but with what "mistakes" the police or prosecution have made and what angles can be played to spring the guy-all in the name of constitutional rights. The result: not a trial to determine justice, but a game. No onus descends on Williams when he frees a guilty client for technical reasons; he gets praise, money and prestige for defeating justice. Isn't it time that...
...excommunication by Rome; four years later, Pope Leo X drummed the great heretic out of the church. Now two ecumenically minded men from St. Louis have asked Pope Paul VI if it isn't time to end the grudge. Wrote the Rev. Walter Riess, a Lutheran minister, and Edward Meiners, a Catholic layman: "Your lifting of his excommunication would voice to all Protestants a fresh expression of your openness to Christian unity." The fact is that the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian Unity has already formed a working committee with the Lutheran World Federation. One of the topics...
...sent Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to the electric chair as Soviet atomic spies in 1953. But a stubborn myth persists that they were framed. That myth sustains Morton Sobell, 49, who got a 30-year sentence as the Rosenbergs' coconspirator. Last week Manhattan's U.S. District Judge Edward Weinfeld rejected Sobell's seventh appeal, a free-swinging charge that the Government convicted the Rosenbergs - and him, too - with "false, perjurious"evidence...
...Edward C. Bursk, professor of Business Administration and IMI's educational director, confirmed published reports that his organization had received money from the Independence Foundation, which served to channel CIA funds to the National Student Association...
Already there has been talk of a Romney-Brooke ticket, which the Senator dismisses on the ground that he must first master his new job. Yet he is plainly on a path that goes beyond whatever personal summit he may reach. The achievements of Edward William Brooke will be as much a standard of a whole society's progress as they will be the measure of an individual who happens to be a Negro...