Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Casner, the Law School's Associate Dean, said late Sunday, "It's kind of a shock, but from the standpoint of the country and the legal profession, it's a great appointment." I knew the Dean was going somewhere this weekend, but didn't know this would happen...
...that the issue had been proposed for debate in city council five times, and had five times been refused. Action following this could hardly be termed a headlong "leap." Your solution is that either Father Groppi cool off or that the white community become sympathetic. That the latter would happen of itself is absurd; that the former would bring about the latter is equally absurd. Pressure, unfortunately, has been proven effective. "Cooling off" could at most bring a new string of promises to be broken...
...some fumbles at the outset. Against more difficult odds because of recent costly land acquisitions, Shipping Tycoon Daniel Ludwig's Westlake Village near the San Fernando Valley and Mortgage Banker James W. Rouse's Columbia near Baltimore are also making a quick start. "The worst that can happen to us," insists Rouse, "is that we'll get rich slowly...
...Diaz-Plaja, the origin of all Spanish sins is the sin of pride. Spaniards have never forgotten that in the 16th century even stable hands wore swords and boasted family shields. They are convinced, he says, that they are the equal of any man, even if they happen to be shining his shoes. No government, not even a dictatorship, can impair their basic dignity, which often reaches the point of anarchy, because "the Spaniard always adapts the laws to his personality and never the other way around." Diaz-Plaja, in fact, sees his countrymen's pride as so overbearing...
Even at this distance in time, to say anything less than laudatory about the founder of the Boy Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...