Word: frayed
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Powell indicated that he would be sympathetic to such a First Amendment claim. Late last week, however, Justice John Paul Stevens entered the Gannett fray by pointing out that the high court has never ruled that the First Amendment guaranteed a right of access to judicial proceedings. Stevens told an audience at the University of Arizona College of Law that while the court has protected the right to disseminate information, it has never upheld any right to acquire information. Whether that reasoning will continue to close courtroom doors to the press remains to be seen. In the meantime, legal experts...
Mind-bending fray in Florida
When Frank Sinatra had a beef with newsmen, he used to settle it with a punch in the nose, a volley of obscenities or a promise to jam a camera where the sun never shines. Now Sinatra has rejoined the fray in more orthodox and, just possibly, more effective fashion. He has endorsed an article critical of the press in Policy Review, published by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, and has mailed copies of the piece to the President, Congressmen, college journalism departments, publishers and columnists...
...fantasy about a South Dakota girl who succeeds in Hollywood. In it, Ladd and several dancing friends are fooling around on the roof of a shed when they suddenly fall into a handy pigsty, landing in 18 in. of gunge. All join in for a high-spirited fray-for-all. But the pictures are not as dirty as they might seem. Cheryl rises muddy but unbowed because the glop-chacun à son goo -was specially sanitized for the event. "I had a ball," says Charlie's fourth Angel. "But I took five showers and still couldn...
...administration of universities in the turbulent '60s is that those decisions the executives backed off from and failed to make too often turned out to be the most dangerous and unwise decisions they made. What makes our work so interesting is that we are not above or beyond the fray. Indeed, in so many compelling ways, the modern university is in the eye of its society's hurricane. Dr. William M. Birenbaum President, Antioch University