Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the trial's 13th month. Leon Jungschlaeger waited out the closing weeks in a 5-ft.-by-9-ft. cell in Djakarta's Tjipinang Prison. Said the International Commission of Jurists: "It is abundantly clear . . . that the accused Jungschlaeger has not been accorded a fair trial." As the prosecutor delivered his rebuttal, Indonesian Judge Gustaaf Adolf Maengkom nodded approvingly from time to time. After all, six months ago he had told a reporter: "I know this man is guilty...
...complete amnesty was a practical step toward holding general elections. As a two-way political maneuver it is supposed to 1) deprive the government's opponents of a major ground for crying fraud, and 2) encourage them to make a fair try at gaining power by the ballot rather than by plotting or violence. Stumpf accepted the measure in that spirit. "We are forgetting all that has happened between us and the government," he said. "From now on we shall fight the government party within the framework...
...seconds, the meet officials had to pick up two of the three above swimmers to complete the final round. Going by the times, Clinton should have been picked as the fifth finalist and the other two should have swum off for the sixth position. But this hardly seemed fair to Kruthers, who had beaten Clinton. So the NCAA decided to let all seven be finalists. The four fastest qualifiers would swim in one heat, and Clinton, Kruthers, and Pemberton would swim in another...
...abdicate its position in the segregation controversy. We have seen the situation as being insoluble in the hands of extremists, and have sought men of good will who can sift the elements of right from the chaff of unreason on both sides of the conflict. [But] men seeking the fair solution have not, in two years, come forward. They do not exist, or they have been unwilling to face the scorn and abuse of those on the extreme fringes . . . Editorials that do not speak sedition, bigotry, white supremacy and incitation to legislative folly and physical violence are not accepted...
Lowell House has been typed in the past as the house of the scholar. But recently when the honorary John Harvard scholarships were awarded, three other Houses received approximately the same number as Lowell did. Although such a superficial analysis is not a fair test of a House's reputed intellectual superiority, it does point to the fact that a House, especially Lowell, cannot be typed...