Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final forum of legal questions in the country, the Supreme Court's decisions should command public respect as being impartial and fair. If the Court were to rule on questions intimately involving President Johnson-such as the legality of the Viet Nam War-the impartiality of Justices Fortas and Thornberry might well be questioned. Herein lies the threat of cronyism to the Supreme Court; it can erode public confidence in its decisions, however fairly they were reached...
...prime issue in the presidential campaign. The FBI reckons that urban crime jumped 88% in the first seven years of the decade?and 17% over 1967 in the first three months of 1968. Granting a sizable margin of inaccuracy in reporting, the figures are probably a fair approximation of the facts. In response to such statistics, Congress last month promised local police forces major financial backing ($400 million over the next two years) for the first time in history. Even the Post Office has put its weight behind the policeman. Instead of celebrating Boy Scouts or blue jays, a recent...
...joys and griefs of a Latin American village are rousingly depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, who used 8,000 Latin American dolls and folk figurines from...
...Fair enough. But many parents will find more reason than rhyme in the lyrics of Bubble-Gum World...
...chief judge, and last January was named the first American to head the Curia's Congregation of Sacraments, which ensures the correct administration of the seven sacraments. Died. Richard Maney, 77, dean of Broadway pressagents, who in 50 years beat the drums for some 250 plays (including My Fair Lady, Camelot); of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Gruff, unfailingly honest and highly literate, Maney assailed the theater for its "notorious affair with mediocrity," and engaged in monumental bouts with such employers as Orson Welles and Billy Rose. "Producing," he once said, "is the Mardi Gras of the professions- anyone with...