Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original plea of guilty means that his sole recourse to obtain a new trial is through a writ of habeas corpus. He told the judge that he would soon be filing such a petition. "I understand this man's a pretty fair jailhouse lawyer," Battle noted. Ray may also receive professional help. Last week he wrote to his previous defender, Arthur J. Hanes. Then Lawyer J. B. Stoner of Savannah, Ga., a lifelong anti-Negro and anti-Semitic agitator, announced that he would represent Ray in several libel suits...
This is not to say that the decision reached was by any stretch of the imagination wholly satisfactory and equitable. To be as fair as possible to Harvard, the performances of all the competitors in the qualifying round would have to be examined. If it should appear apparent that the Harvard men (Bernstein and Griswold) would have placed third and fourth with McCann out of the competition, then perhaps the third place points should be scored for Harvard...
...students responding to the poll, 800 judged the food "fair," and only 425 thought it was "good." Nearly 60 per cent felt that there should be more choices offered at each meal...
...Monday, but took several more days to ponder, discuss and whip his arguments into shape-largely in consultation with Adviser Henry Kissinger. The Nixon solution has both the virtues and defects of most compromises: it may fall short of either its political or military objective, but it has a fair chance of being accepted by Congress and may be politically tenable for a while...
...have 45 students, of whom over half were present; we have 50, of whom less than half were present. Much of your article outlines certain "demands," which--you ambiguously state--they "entered the meeting prepared to make." I am glad to say that they were much too friendly and fair-mined to adopt such a tone; some, but by no means all, of the matters you report were brought up in the course of a full and free discussion. The person who supplied you with this material, Miss Ellen Cantarow, spoke for herself alone, and left the meeting early...