Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a determined thrust by land and sea in and above the so-called Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams. The "Inchon Thing," as Pentagon planners call it-referring to Douglas MacArthur's end run into enemy territory during the Korean War -would carry the ground war to North Vietnamese soil for the first time. The purpose would be to seal off the DMZ as an operational base for North Vietnamese regular forces above the 17th Parallel and to crimp the southward flow of Communist troops. The major drawback of any such offensive is that...
...that the place had been a haven for prostitution, narcotics and stolen ammunition; one night at the height of the riots, police hauled out a man with a rifle. Next night, after getting reports of sniping in the area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police and a Guard unit led by a warrant officer indulged in an orgy of beating and bashing that lasted...
...GROUP LEGAL SERVICES. Occasionally mislabeled group practice, group legal services are services made available by for example, a union or club as a benefit of membership. But the A.B.A. code of ethics bars them, on the ground that "the professional services of a lawyer should not be controlled or exploited by any lay agency, personal or corporate, which intervenes between client and lawyer." In a convention debate, backers of such services pointed out that they would make legal assistance possible for people who could not otherwise fully afford it. Replied Pennsylvania Attorney Andrew Hourigan Jr., chairman of the A.B.A. committee...
Lawyers as individuals and through legal-aid societies have long served the poor." Now lawyers must think of how to go about providing their services to the middle ground of Americans "at a cost they can afford to pay." The most important thing, he said in summarizing the meeting, "is that the bar recognizes that we are living in a rapidly changing and demanding society. Our role is to be attuned to this social change...
...brainpower and brawn been expended." The contest, not the old Victorian silver ewer, is the thing. In the demands it makes on boat and man, it is the ultimate, the very pinnacle in yachting. What started 116 years ago as a gentlemen's lark, has become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle, an affair of national pride, purpose and prestige that so far has cost the competitors, winners and losers combined, an estimated $50 million-with no guarantees on the investment except that somebody would win and somebody else would lose...