Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what do we hear from blacks at Harvard? Black professors, counselors, etc., "Black" courses, proportional enrollment. The complaints of these comparatively overprivileged Americans must sound self-centered and trivial to sharecroppers and ghetto welfare recipients. Do they care who holds the Negro chair at Harvard? Would a black professor want to be invited to Harvard because of his coloring rather than his ability in teaching and research? I think I would be insulted if I were...
...likes the fact that little or no distinction is made between soldiers and officers in the Israeli army. The people he calls "kind and gentle, not bad at all compared to what we used to hear on the radio." Yet he has just published a book which is not at all pro-Israeli. He emphasizes that Israel has to go back to the old borders. Is that a condition for peace, I want to know. "No, the Palestinian question has to be solved as a condition for peace...
...that they should be proud of him; Atkins reciprocated. Then, as Atkins, in an unnecessarily formal fashion was introducing "The Honorable..." Brown broke in with a more fitting lead in: "When I got into town White called me up and believe me this man is 'Together.' So let's hear it for Swingin Kev." With that the mavor bopped up onto the podium and shook hands with Brown. Saying that he had come "like everyone else to hear James." (which wasn't entirely true since he ran back to City Hall immediately following his address). White recalled the death...
...stay out of only 10% of the cases. Despite the current abstentions, however, he does not lack for work. He has written two of the 14 decisions in which he has taken part. And he has been handling an extra number of the "petitions that ask the court to hear a case. So great is his work load, in fact, that he is in his office most Saturdays, and even some Sundays...
...Leon Emerson during the past year has been using a unique new courtroom tool: a speakerphone. The instrument is sensitive enough to pick up the courtroom questions of defense and prosecuting attorneys. The witness is sworn over the loudspeaker telephone, and his voice is amplified so that everyone can hear what he says...