Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more pretentious than Clark about his restaurants but hardly sounder. Olson's favorite restaurant "in all the world" rates only- in Michelin, and third on his Paris list is a copy of Chicago's Gaslight Club. Olson is both a dictator and a square (his idea of Paris fun is going to the Folies-Bergère). As far as he is concerned, the only possible way for any American to enjoy Europe is as part of the herd. For their first trip, Olson sends his readers on a 39-day Grand Tour of ten countries, and their...
...Costa e Silva, 63, the bluff, hearty head of Brazil's military, said loudly and clearly that he had no desire to be President himself. That was two years ago, however, and General Costa e Silva has since decided that being President is not such a bad idea after all. In fact, he has all but tied up the job as successor to Castello Branco...
When Kroll appealed Danny's case to the U.S. Supreme Court, his idea for an objective test of police procedure reached friendlier territory. In federal jurisdiction, the FBI routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel; if a federal suspect talks, the prosecution must prove that he "intelligently and knowingly" waived his rights. Moreover, the Supreme Court's 1957 Mallory rule bars prolonged federal interrogation. On arrest, a federal defendant must be taken "without unnecessary delay" before the nearest U.S. commissioner, who reiterates his rights and furnishes a lawyer if the suspect cannot afford...
They decided to do something about their discovery last summer. He said. A committee of eight deliberated for most of this year and came up with the consolidation idea...
ACCION is older than the Peace Corps--by six months. It was founded in 1960 by Joseph Blatchford, who conceived the idea while on a goodwill tour of South America as the captain of the University of California tennis team. According to Blatchford, he felt the need to start a community development group after Vice President Nixon was attacked in his limousine by mobs in Caracas. Although ACCION has helped reverse the tide of militant anti-Americanism, it is possible that Nixon would be attacked again today if he showed his face in Caracas...