Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clark has been in the thick of the Administration's fight for civil liberties. He was the department's troubleshooter during the 1965 Selma voting-rights drive and headed a presidential fact-finding mission after the Watts riots. Though his father dissented from the 1966 Miranda verdict banning confessions obtained without full warnings to defendants of their rights, Ramsey wholeheartedly endorses the Supreme Court's recent liberal rulings on interrogations and confessions. When Congress passed a stiff crime bill for the District of Columbia that he considered reactionary and unconstitutional, he prevailed on Johnson to veto...
...Note to a FORTUNE editor on a story of a corporate battle: "I resent the fact that [these men] are fighting for a huge chunk of the 'national estate' without there seeming to be any point to the fight. Neither [one] seems to stand for a damn thing. This is the sort of thing that turns one against capitalism. I resent having these great companies owned by pointless men like these. And as for these vast investment trusts, I am inclined to think that they should be abolished." April...
...first car, an open-top two-seater called the Voiturette, as early as 1901. After World War II and the Communist takeover, Skoda's major model was a small sedan called the Oktavia, which gained little popularity in the West. Yet it was only after a long fight that Skoda's management was given government permission to make the radical design departure from the Oktavia that resulted...
...dialogue that could have been prerecorded at a pet shop. Just as in the original, the special-effects man creates a table-top monster rally that comes to a clumsy climax in a duel between a triceratops and an allosaurus-the least exciting rematch since the second Clay-Liston fight...
...into the act after the 145-lb bout, booing the decision of referee James McCarron, which gave the win to Lowell's Dave Stern over teammate Dwight Porter. Porter had thrown some very strong right crosses in the first two rounds, and had seemed in control throughout the fight...