Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rulers will remain adamant in their refusal to negotiate. In that situation, the President will have to reconsider his options. Since withdrawal is out, they come down to two: aim for a stalemate or order a quantum intensification of the war effort-possibly in the air, certainly on the ground...
...passion, all effusiveness, all exaggeration, which does not go well with Mozart." Steeped in religious philosophy, she is a radiant, darkly handsome woman who fortifies her self with yoga exercises learned from Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's guru in India, and daily rations of a syrupy mixture of ground-up acorns, figs and raw oatmeal. Last year she visited Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer in Gabon, played Mozart and Bach for him every night for five weeks; he spent his last days listening to her recording of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. In February, she will become an artist...
Guilt & Garbage. To hear some experts tell it, the Warren court has covered so much ground that it now faces its dullest term in 14 years. At first glance, the new docket promises few blockbuster decisions, such as those that banned public-school prayers in 1963 and curbed confessions last June. Yet the Warren court is hardly preparing to go out of business. Last week it faced requests to review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work...
Most editors are convinced that jurors rarely recall pretrial publicity, since trials usually occur long after arrest. As for the trial itself, Houston's canny Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman is all for complete trial (though not pretrial) publicity on the ground that news slanted against his client is sure to rouse jury sympathy. Foreman even favors televised trials: "The accused has a constitutional right to have the breaks on public opinion," he says. Atlanta Criminal Lawyer Pierre Howard argues that trial judges are already fully empowered to safeguard trials, for example, by granting changes of venue. "If a judge...
...Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. In its own forthcoming report on the subject, said Medina, his committee will differ sharply with the A.B.A.'s pretrial proposals on the ground that American judges lack power to discipline police and news media until a case comes to trial. For one thing, the Constitution's separation of governmental powers limits the judicial branch in controlling police, who belong to the executive branch. For another, the First Amendment precludes "direct controls...