Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem too strained. When Nixon sold his Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City last May, he received $326,000-twice what he paid for it in 1963. In April, the President sold 185,891 shares he had held in Fisher's Island, Inc., a land-development firm near Miami. Selling at $2 a share, the President doubled his original investment. With his White House salary, and what he saved from the fat years as a corporate attorney in New York, Richard Nixon is reasonably well off. And, of course, all the interest he pays on his holdings...
...curb." Now the ex-Justice seems to be recuperating. According to friends, he will resume practicing law early this fall with an impressive list of corporate clients in Boston and New York. None of the corporations said to be involved have ever been represented by Fortas' old law firm, Arnold & Porter, which decided against taking him back after the Supreme Court affair-though his wife Carolyn is still a partner. "He lined up some big, lucrative retainers," reports a friend, "and suddenly his whole emotional outlook had changed. He knew he didn't have to give...
...past years, disorders frequently got out of hand because administrations and faculties were simply not adequately prepared to cope. That is changing. Many universities in recent months have been making firm plans to squelch force as a dissenter's weapon. By commencement time last June, some of the strategy seemed to be successful. Now the practice will be tested for a full school year...
...counts of conspiracy to murder. Yet he was blamed for allowing four defendants to escape punishment for the $ 1,551,277 Plymouth mail robbery. The Kennedy disaster was a hard blow professionally, since it was only last May that Markham resigned as U.S. Attorney to join a private law firm in Boston. Now his legal reputation is at least diminished...
Bettelheim does not deny the existence of injustices within U.S. life. But he insists that the underlying causes of campus unrest lie as much in the way American children are raised and educated as in the Vietnamese war or widespread poverty. His advice is for universities to act like firm but understanding parents. While gladly adopting worthy suggestions, administrators should stop being so "anxious to look progressive" that they shrink from upholding the reasoned guidelines that students need to cope with their inner conflicts. For adolescents who lack a commitment to study and research, Bettelheim proposes a new educational system...