Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Would it perhaps be fair to say that, after running the ship of state onto the shoals of diplomatic, fiscal and military defeat, "Captain" Johnson was the first to board a lifeboat for the sunny shores of the Pedernales...
...Many of Johnson's critics could not bring themselves to believe that he was sincere. He might have "something up his sleeve," said Pediatrician Benjamin Spock. "I hope he means it," said retired Lieut. General James Gavin. "I'm afraid he doesn't, and that he would accept a fair draft." Many sophisticated Europeans suspected that Johnson hoped to duplicate the feat of Egypt's Nasser, who "quit" after the disastrous war with Israel in 1967 but was restored to power by popular demand. "Is this a false exit," wondered Paris' Le Monde, designed "to stop the rapid decline...
...This law has become a law of oppression," says Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. With support from leftists and independent deputies, Mitterrand hopes to persuade the National Assembly to repeal it. His chances are only fair, and meantime Frenchmen must watch themselves. Aimed at ever more ridiculous targets, the 87-year-old law was recently invoked to arrest a diner at a provincial bistro for drawing a caricature of De Gaulle on a tablecloth, an amateur ceramist for portraving him on an ashtray, a drunk for criticizing him in a bar, and an unsuspecting man in the street...
Winship denies categorically that theGlobeis pushing peace candidates. He simply wants to get the issues and the candidates into the paper. "We're going to be damned scrupulously fair to all candidates," he insisted recently, and to substantiate it he pulled out a back issue with side-by-side pictures of Kennedy, McCarthy and Johnson. Nevertheless, he admits, "We gave McCarthy a break...
...kindly, he may be losing his grip") to the cliches of sportscasters (Roger Mans, according to a Newman parody, "swings a once potent mace but is still patrolling the outer garden with his ancient skill"). His architectural critique of the late New York World's Fair noted that most of the state pavilions "looked like the work of Governors' relatives...