Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to such questions from defense attorneys, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Editor Warren Boroson, of the now defunct magazine Fact, replied with an unqualified no. Both men insisted that their 1964 article depicting Barry Goldwater as a paranoiac, a latent homosexual and a latter-day Hitler, was simply fair comment on a presidential candidate's fitness for office (TIME, May 17). It was of no importance, they claimed, that only 20% of the psychiatrists they polled had even bothered to answer their admittedly loaded questionnaire. Nor did it matter that more than half of those who did answer disagreed...
Dissenting, as he so often has from extensions of Bill of Rights guarantees, Justice John Harlan repeated his feeling that due process "requires only that criminal trials be fundamentally fair." Since it cannot "be demonstrated that trial by jury is the only fair means," Justice Harlan would have upheld the conviction. But fairness was not the pivotal factor to Justice Byron White, who wrote for the majority. To him, the jury trial is so "fundamental to the American scheme of justice" that every citizen is entitled to it in "serious" criminal cases, whether or not another trial method might also...
Despite early setbacks, the Fair finally started in earnest around afternoon time when the rank and file poured out of Krackerjacks--price tags still clinging to their swinging attire--and headed for Where the Action is At in Boss Town...
Further difficulties arose when sponsors of the Fair tried to reserve the Common for yesterday only to hear from the Cambridge City Father's that the grounds had already been allocated to the Polish American Citizens who plan to re-erect a plaque displaced during construction of the underpass. Fortunately the potential conflict never materialized and a compromise was worked out: the peaceniks would disrupt the Shabbos and the Poles the Sabbath...
...Common returned to its gutted, wasteland appearance. By then everyone, who was anyone, had made his appearance: General Waste-More-Land alias General Hershey-bar had convinced everyone that he should be interned at the earliest opportunity; and Evy (better known as Super-Fan) had graced the Fair with her presence to certify it as an event worthy of notice