Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before him, Harlan accused the majority of peddling "poor constitutional law," which promised "harmful consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops who lie about third-degree tactics used to coerce confessions, he claimed, "are destined to lie as skillfully about warnings and waivers." And anyway, he asked, what is wrong with a little pressure on a suspect? "Until today...
...half-VASSS. Pure VASSS resembles table-tennis scoring: each successful shot earns one point, match is 31, and the player who reaches 31 first must have a two-point margin to win-otherwise, the match goes into an eight-point overtime. Service changes hands after every five points. On fast surfaces such as grass, big serves are discouraged either by 1) limiting the players to one serve per point, or 2) making them serve from a line 3 ft. behind the base line...
...trying to do too much too fast. Too much private investment, too much government spending, rising consumer appetites. And all of the coun tries are looking to monetary policies alone for avoiding the inflationary im pact." So said Federal Reserve Board Member Dewey Daane last week, focusing on the fact that the U.S., among other countries, has sought to restrain its economic exuberance by making money costlier and scarcer than at any other time in the 1960s...
...With air traffic racing 26% ahead of 1965, the industry's first-quarter revenues rose 21%. Last week Pan Am said that its passenger traffic so far this year was up 30%. TWA reported that its revenues in May grew 19.5%, compared with the same month last year. Fast-growing Continental Airlines' May passenger traffic rose 29% on domestic routes and 272% on overseas runs. The line expects to increase last year's revenues by $33 million, to $150 million...
...white knight of black Africa is the "Omo man," who wanders from vil lage to village. Dressed in candent cot tons, he passes out sample boxes of Omo detergent, a fast-bubbling profit maker turned out by Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch combine that is the world's sixth biggest company. People grab up the giveaways, not only because each box top can be redeemed for ten more samples at the local Unilever-owned store, but also because the Omo man is plugged by radio ads that suggest he possesses supernatural powers. Say the commercials: "As a snail dies...