Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest cities, concern over the Negro's welfare has been largely replaced by consternation at the prospect of anarchy. Nothing more dramatically underscored this shift than the total silence that greeted Johnson's State of the Union plea for several "vital" civil rights laws covering fair jury trials, enforcement of equal-employment opportunity and open housing. By contrast, he was applauded a dozen times when he spoke of curbing crime...
...strongest threads in the fabric of President Johnson's Administration winds back to the New and Fair Deal days of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Those years yielded in time a national unity on matters of foreign commitments and domestic crises that knit President and populace in almost runproof harmony. Though it is frayed today by dissent over Viet Nam, Johnson would like nothing better than to reknit the cloth of American purpose. Last week he seized an opportunity to do so. To succeed Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, the President chose Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, a veteran...
Industrial production has also suffered. Japan, one of China's preferred customers, received 10% to 12% less imports from China in 1967, and several hopeful foreign buyers at the recent Canton trade fair came back emptyhanded. Since many Chinese factories were shut down all during 1967 by the revolution's upheavals and others have unexplainedly closed in recent weeks, the Chinese were simply unable to fill the foreigners' orders...
...happy about it. Says Indianapolis Attorney John Raikos: "The real evil of conspiracy is that it is a vehicle used by the prosecutor to get in evidence that he could not otherwise possibly get in." Some legal scholars agree. Yale Law Professor Abraham Goldstein says: "It threatens the whole fair-trial notion." And, he adds, it crowds the maxim of Anglo-Saxon law that a man cannot be punished for evil intent alone...
Vernaglia is in "fair condition and resting as comfortably as possible," even though unconscious and on the critical list, a spokesman at Massachusetts General Hospital said yesterday. Pieper was released after treatment for minor leg injuries at Stillman Infirmary...