Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just recently with the knowledge that it was to be used along with your comments on my opinion in the nudist case. You have deceived your readers; you have portrayed me as a tasteless, witless and publicity-hungry exhibitionist; you have done a vast disservice to any fair public concept of the dignity and responsibility of our courts and the earnest hard-working men who sit on them. You have literally stripped me in public and have forced upon me, a justice of a supreme court, the highly distasteful and undignified task of publicly defending myself...
...turbulent fortunes for almost all of its ten years of independence, went on the air and announced that he was resigning and had invited General Ne Win, chief of the armed forces, to head a nonparty government which would dissolve Parliament and "make arrangements essential for holding free and fair elections...
Some people feel that having fun is not enough justification for a world's fair. On one ship returning to the States, students hotly debated whether the Expo was "A Waste or Winner...
...August, however, the Unfinished Work exhibit was removed from the Fair. The official reason given was that the space was needed for additional exhibits on U.S. culture. But it is generally believed that the objections of Southern senators to the publicity on the Negro problem was largely responsible for the removal. Some people praised the removal on the grounds that each country should show off its best features. Others deplored the passing of what they believe an honest portrayal...
...agreed that the purpose of a world's fair is to give a still picture of the turning world, then we can discount criticisms that the Fair lacked a unified theme, that there was a spirit of Cold War and not one of cooperation, and even that hot dogs were too expensive. Diversity, Cold War, and inflationary prices typify this year; and if these were evident at the Expo, it is not a short-coming. They merely added their bit in staging the drama, "World...