Word: governance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of loss which I feel at this passing unless they realize that for me--and for many of those who participated--the strike was the most important experience of our lives. In countless small ways, the insights and ideas which came to us during April of 1969 still govern our thinking and our daily living. Affiliations, friendships, and hatreds which we formed then are still compelling, though we are now quite different people than we were when we stood at the steps of University Hall, or in Memorial Church, or in the end zone of the Harvard Stadium...
...contemporary standards. The Constitution places no specific restrictions on the death penalty, and its defenders-including the state's attorneys for California, Georgia and Texas, who are arguing the case before the Supreme Court-maintain that the ban on cruel and unusual punishment is meant simply to govern excessive or inherently cruel penalties. To these men, the death penalty is neither-at least for murder or rape, the main offenses for which it is now invoked...
...month the bill formally devaluing the dollar-which came under renewed selling pressure in Europe last week. That, however, is only an interim goal. The current negotiations promise to be the opening gun in a years-long campaign to expand American exports by rewriting many of the rules that govern -and now restrict-world trade...
...fellas, it's real nice of you to give us back the right to our Jewish city of Jerusalem [Dec. 27]! We're glad you're big enough to swallow your doubts and to tell the world you think Jews are fit to govern a city that's had a Jewish majority for the last 100 years...
Like all others in the future, the January issue will have a central theme -in this case, politics-within an editorial mix of about fifty-fifty fashion and non-fashion. There will be contributions from Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, Edmund Muskie, George Mc-Govern and Ted Kennedy, among others. Fashions will be displayed against political backdrops. In February, the background will be Manhattan and the issue theme "In Defense of New York," highlighting an interview with John Lindsay on what he doesn't like about the New York Times...