Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House debate, New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made an impassioned plea. "We have trifled with fate long enough on this question of presidential inability," said Celler. "We can no longer delay. Delay is the art of keeping up with yesterday. We must keep abreast of tomorrow." But some Representatives had misgivings. Said Ohio Republican Clarence Brown: "Under certain circumstances, a vacancy could exist in the vice-presidency and a President could name a billy goat as Vice President and some Congresses would approve of that nomination...
...pound, and use every orthodox monetary and fiscal tool to get Britain's creaking economy moving again. Not everyone was convinced that Wilson's new budget (TIME, April 16) can do the job as well as he hopes. One banker reminded the Prime Minister of the fate of King Canute who ordered the tide to recede - and ended up a wetback. Replied Wilson cockily: "I, unlike Canute, have waited until high tide before giving my command...
...alarms trivial in the light of the Bomb. "We are now passing through a period of what might be called 'cosmic insensitivity,' " he says, "a period when God seems more than ever absent from the world and man is doomed to come face to face with the fate he has created for himself. At such a moment, the question of whether a man be guilty of using obscene language in printed books seems to me inconsequential. It is almost as if, while taking a walk through a green field, I espied a blade of grass with manure...
...judicial history comes close to matching the scandal now swirling around the Oklahoma State Supreme Court. Last week Oklahoma's senate scheduled proceedings against Justice Napoleon Bonaparte Johnson, 74, on impeachment charges by the state house of representatives. His colleague, Justice Earl Welch, 73, will escape the same fate only because he recently resigned in the wake of charges that he and Johnson took bribes in exchange for favorable decisions. Meanwhile, a state grand jury has indicted the two justices, both of them Oklahoma Indians. The alleged bribery ringleader is former Chief Justice Nelson S. Corn, 80, himself...
...Bashkir folk dances, and he was soon touring the local hospitals with the school troupe. One night the Ufa Opera Ballet imported a name ballerina and, though he did not have the price of a ticket, Nureyev went by the theater determined somehow to get in. As fate would have it, the crush of the crowd was so great that the doors of the theater collapsed and in he went. It was the first ballet he had ever seen. "Watching the dancers that night," he recalls, "I had the absolute certitude that I had been born to dance...