Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American observers-ranging in political coloration from liberal Democratic Governors to conservative Republican Senators-reported back to President Johnson that the election victory of Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu (see cover story) seemed fair. To be sure, the observers could not be everywhere, and in most cases were taken in tow by Vietnamese officials. "We could all possibly have been bamboozled," allowed New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, "but it would have taken a minimum of 25,000 character actors and about 11,000 stagehands to put on the production we have seen...
Call Me Richard. The "like father, like son" pattern goes only so far. Grizzled Lee Petty is a link to the old school of stock-car racers, the back-country leadfoots who learned their trade racing hot-rods around dusty country-fair horse tracks or outrunning revenooers on the South's mountainous "white-lightning trails." Richard Petty, who has been racing for money ever since he turned 21, belongs to the new school: the cool, engineer-minded youngsters who talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "foot-pounds of torque" and bristle at any mention of the sport...
...first seven months of 1967, expectations are general for an upturn in the fourth quarter. Volkswagen, which took the hardest beating, went back to full shifts in mid-August and now has a six-day working week. Companies returned from Berlin's recent radio and TV fair with full order books. Production of color TV sets is sold out till year's end. Inventories in industry as a whole have been running short, with an increasing number of companies about to start replenishing them...
...Sister Corita's own vibrant silk-screen serigraphs have been pur chased by leading museums in Europe and the U.S., and last year were exhibited at 150 shows. Versatile and prolific, she did a large serigraph exhibit for the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair, designed advertisements for Westinghouse, and gift wrapping for Neiman-Marcus. Her friends range from Buckminster Fuller to Ben Shahn, who describes her as a "joyous revolutionary...
Actually, the only way to make fair sense of American law is to plumb the ramifications of one important case, the strategy so impressively followed by Anthony Lewis in Gideon's Trumpet (1964). Grand surveys usually get nowhere; "law" is almost entirely a case-by-case proposition. As Mayer himself says, "Law is a process, not a thing...