Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saved Johnson the embarrassment of being contradicted by his own crime commission. A majority of the group, led by Houston attorney Leon Jawarski, agreed not to oppose the President in the commission's formal recommendations, but it insisted on a statement that electronic bugging by police is necessary to fight organized crime. Jawarski, a personal friend of Johnson, had up to that time been frequently advanced by the press as a possible successor to former Attorney General Katzenbach...
...Justice Department's fight against organized crime, according to the commission's report, reached its peak under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48, but lost its effectiveness in 1965. The commission attributed this decline to press charges of illegal wiretapping made against several federal agencies...
Just what effect, if any, the President's Right of Privacy Bill would have on the Justice Department's fight against crime is not at all clear. The Federal Communications Act, in effect since 1934, already makes it a crime for "any person" to intercept and divulge a telephone conversation. Congress has repeatedly refused to make exceptions--even for national security cases...
Cassius Clay is sincere. There is no doubt about that. He reportedly could have entered a Reserve unit, as pro football and baseball players do, and escaped the Army the respectable way. But he stayed to fight and now he isn't the champion any longer...
...junior varsity race looks like a three-way fight. Navy is also undefeated at this level, and turns in times which are very close to the Midshipmen varsity. Harvard's heavyweight varsity coach Harry Parker thinks that the crew which wins this one "will be the best JV boat in the East...