Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results of the stories they worked on last week or last month. But often we receive letters and calls from individuals and corporations whose lives have been changed by a TIME story. While many of these effects are on a rather large scale, we are fascinated by what we hear from people who were involved in smaller stories...
...practice of blaming Johnson for virtually every social evil from crime to narcotics; at one point he even accused the President of "appealing to the darker impulses of the American spirit." This was a bit too much for some of Kennedy's close advisers. "You won't hear any more of that," said one, and Bobby himself later commented: "I'm afraid I didn't handle it very well...
...thunderbolt from Zeus that plunged Prometheus into the netherworld; yet most cheered and stomped for 20 minutes when Orff appeared for curtain calls. The reviews were more divided. Hans Stuckenschmidt, Germany's leading music critic, wrote that "the performance counts among the best that one can see and hear today in European theaters." But Der Spiegel scoffed that the opera sounded like "a prehistoric equinoctial celebration of a voodoo ritual...
...general practice of court members is to disqualify themselves from anything smacking of conflict, but each justice decides for himself. No reason is given, but it is often clear. William Douglas, who had been chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, would not hear any SEC-related case for five years after going on the court. Potter Stewart would not take part in appeals coming from the Ohio Supreme Court when his father was one of its judges, and Tom Clark retired because he expected that the disqualification problem would become great after his son Ramsey became U.S. Attorney General...
...former Vice-President cited two factors contributing to McCarthy's ability to enlist the support of college students. "Firstly," he said, "there's the fact that there is great disillusionment among young people over Vietnam, and, of course, McCarthy tells them what they want to hear...