Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China-is a coup or demonstration or a series of advances and retreats any real premise or portent for the future. But the free world could take some comfort last week from the loosely linked chain of evidence around the world that repressive regimes were losing rather than gaining ground in their effort to impress mankind that liberty, Communist-style, is the wave of the future...
...vivid mixture of nostalgia and Angst. So powerful an issue is the long-dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned for recognition as the only legitimate heir of Emperor Franz Josef. His ground: that his father was born in 1883 to a secret marriage between a Tuscan princess and Crown Prince Rudolf...
...seemed to sharply favor the Painters. In an angry letter to the court, Eugene Austin, chairman of the Nebraska Council on Family Law, called the ruling "an act of tyranny, pure and simple." The Iowa Civil Liberties Union discussed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps on the ground that the decision violated Painter's religious freedom. Painter himself was bitter. "What they've said," he commented, "is that if parents don't conform to a middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children. By that standard, several million Americans would...
...John M. Prutting, 56, was hardly pleased last fall when Mrs. Prutting, 35, gave birth to her first child. Without his consent or knowledge, says the doctor, Mrs. Prutting conceived her child by A.I.D. (artificial insemination by a donor). Predictably, Prutting is now suing for divorce on the only ground New York permits-adultery. Unpredictably, his suit poses a curious legal riddle, and a jury must now tackle the key issue: Does A.I.D. constitute adultery...
From several holes in the ground, one as large as 12 inches in diameter, De Lumley has deduced that the roof of the dwelling was supported by beams or tree trunks. The people who lived there may have been pre-Neanderthal men, like those who inhabited a cave discovered earlier in Nice...