Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experts, Secret Service agents and advance logistics men laying plans for a major presidential trip-less than 48 hours away-into the depressed-area battlefields of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia. The word went out: Let the kids out of school, let all good unionists get ready to gather, let the placard painters go to work...
...agree with this contention," wrote Justice Hugo Black in last week's majority opinion. Though Virginia is undoubtedly empowered to regulate law practice, said Black, it cannot forbid trainmen "to gather together" and seek "the wisest counsel" in pursuit of their legal rights. In sharp dissent, Justice Tom Clark argued that the decision "overthrows state regulation of the legal profession and relegates the practice of law to the level of a commercial enterprise." Even so, Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia means that lay organizations across the U.S. may now attempt all sorts of experimental group plans to put more lawyers...
...insights into the individuals or the society that produced them. Cruelly stomping down a child's sand castle, raising hob in a roadhouse, or pairing off at random, they seem little more than anonymous delinquents-the kind of blank, boisterous folk that cause the family trade to gather up their towels and baskets and move to a nice quiet spot at the far end of the beach...
Every New Year's Day, the men of the Du Pont family gather in the mansions on the old home grounds hard by Brandywine Creek in northern Delaware. Once assembled, they band themselves into little troops and march off to the several family villas and châteaux in the area to pay their respects to the waiting Du Pont womenfolk. This is an admirable rite, steeped as it is in tradition, but it has its practical side as well: there are roughly 1,600 Du Ponts in the U.S. today, and some of them might never otherwise...
Cheever was an obviously gifted child. His mother took him to Ibsen plays in Boston, and he got nosebleeds out of sheer excitement. He was chubby then and no athlete, but he early discovered his talent for storytelling, and used to gather a crowd of his contemporaries around him on the family veranda on a summer afternoon while he held forth. In his early teens, he sneaked off to Boston, where he hung around that citadel of burlesque, the Old Howard, cadging an occasional pat from the strippers. Cheever's academic career, in which he never took much interest...