Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parent of a long-haired boy (and a long-haired daughter) who still has faith in them and their ideals, I was most pleased and grateful for this fair coverage...
...single supreme court justice sitting to hear petitions in the absence of the full bench was Paul Reardon. Three years ago, Reardon drew up the American Bar Association's stringent Fair Trial-Free Press code, which, among other things, recommended excluding reporters from all pretrial proceedings or hearings that do not take place before a jury. "Hearsay can be introduced at any inquest," Reardon said last week, "even hearsay on top of hearsay." After granting a postponement, Reardon pointedly implied that District Attorney Edmund Dinis and other authorities involved in the case had been speaking too freely. Such statements...
Tribal Appeals. From his exile in rigged" Guinea, elections Nkrumah for the blamed N.A.L.'s di "completely sastrous showing. The party's leaders knew better. To ensure fair elections, the military council had appointed one of Ghana's most distinguished judges to head an election commission. There were triple-sealed tin ballot boxes and acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times...
...District Court bench in 1961. Some observers question his judicial competence, and one acquaintance asserts that Boyle was so innocent of the law that he thought he could remain superior court clerk even after his appointment to the District Court. Yet he is generally regarded as a fair jurist who conducts court business in open court, shunning closed-door conferences. His brusque conduct at last week's pre-inquest hearings suggested that he hopes and intends to preserve the decorum of a procedure that, as he knows, could dissolve into a constitutional morass...
...Teddy Kennedy has been treated by the press was given particular attention in the survey. By a ratio of more than five to one, Americans agree that newspapers and newsmagazines have given Kennedy fair treatment; seven to one they say television has. The approbation is qualified however: fewer than one out of three will go so far as to say the media in general have been "very fair" in their Kennedy coverage. Not surprisingly, Harris found that the groups that generally support Kennedy -youth, Easterners, blacks and women -are more critical of the press; those who do not-the elderly...