Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dartmouth Carnival last weekend, coach Charley Gibson's snowmen, plagued by numerous falls, finished a disappointing but excusable sixth. The Crimson lost 14 crucial points when 4 of the 5 entrees in the slalom fell...
...Gibson's coaching is gradually molding some strong units from the good material on the team. The decisive question in the team's future is when the individual skiers will hit their stride...
...extended the guarantees of the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment in recent years, Congress has made the court's decision in this case more difficult by having refused to include state and local elections in the 24th Amendment. How, asked Virginia's Counsel George D. Gibson, can the court kill the tax in state and local elections when a constitutional amendment was required to kill it in federal elections...
Like federal courts, California's are now centrally administered and answerable to the state's top court. Under former Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson, who retired last year at 72, the state banished overlapping minor courts and nonlawyer judges. In 1960 the voters approved Gibson's pioneering plan to ease aging or incompetent judges out of office (TIME, March 26). But sound organization is only half the story. Equally vital is the quality of California's high court, which currently includes such able men as Justices Mathew O. Tobririer, Paul Peek and Raymond E. Peters. Most...
With Traynor heartily concurring, in 1963 Chief Justice Gibson took California far beyond the Supreme Court's current doctrine that Northern school boards may or may not remedy de facto segregation, as they please. In a still unique state-court reading of the 14th Amendment, Gibson ruled in Jackson v. Pasadena that California school boards can no longer merely refrain from discrimination. "It is up to the school boards," he said, "to eliminate racial imbalance in schools regardless of its cause." In 1963 Traynor spoke for his court in issuing another U.S. precedent: the idea that even non-negligent...