Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer, but also from solid advances in our understanding of social processes themselves. "We live in a society," Otis Dudley Duncan writes, "that is understandable but not understood." I am sure Professor Duncan would wish to leave plenty of room for the eventual mysteries of life, but it is fair to state that the first order effects of many social programs are now subject to rudimentary, but nonetheless useful measurement...
...Matter of Patronage. While the Post & Times-Star was playing up the probate scandals on Page One, Cincinnati's other daily, the Enquirer, was giving them only perfunctory treatment. Though both papers are owned by Scripps-Howard, they operate independently. "We decided it would not be fair to pick out individuals in a few selected cases," explained Enquirer Publisher Francis Dale. He had reason. Reporter Horner had discovered that Enquirer Court Reporter Tom Mercer and Columnist Frank Weikel had both served recently as appraisers...
This time, Governor George Wallace is already fielding requests from applicants anxious for even the temporary honor of serving as a supreme court justice. Those chosen are likely to bend over backward being fair: there is always a chance that they may later appear before Justice Simpson's court. And at 73, he has every intention of staying on the bench indefinitely. Back in 1961, the state legislature passed a law aimed at forcing elderly judges to retire in order to get full retirement benefits. Justice Simpson simply announced that his brethren would rule the law unconstitutional...
Pettifogging is countered by perjury. In return for the attorney-generalship of Wales, a fair-weather friend (John Hurt) trumps up evidence that More is a traitor. "Why, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world," the doomed man murmurs with incredulous irony. "But for Wales...
Liberals and radicals have their rhetorical questions also. Is it fair to ask the poor, who presumably will be attracted to a volunteer army, to fight our wars? Shouldn't there be some feeling of community, a desire to distribute, if not death, then the likelihood of death, among all classes in the population...