Word: impor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed, invest the term journalist with a new and lofty impor tance. Those of us who practice the craft (Mr. Luce might have called it a profession) will be constantly reminded of just how important his manifold contributions were. And, agree or disagree, we are all in his debt...
...allegedly obscene film is the work of a famous author, does his repu tation make the work "socially impor tant" and, therefore, not obscene? No, ruled the California District Court of Appeal in the case of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The French scatologist's literary fame "does not provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself...
Nowhere was this more visible than in the U.S., where both business and government frequently based their most impor tant economic actions on the need to become more competitive in world markets. The turning point of the year for the U.S. economy?the great steel crisis?seemed a peculiarly domestic fuss. But when U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough decided to raise steel prices $6 a ton less than a week after his company had signed its first noninflationary labor contract since the Korean war. he used foreign competition as a justification for his move. Overseas competitors, paying lower wages...
...door of Room 1007 was the second face-to-face encounter between Barnett and Meredith. A few days earlier, Barnett had blocked Meredith's path when he attempted to register at the University of Mississippi campus at Oxford (TIME, Sept. 28). In the interval between the two confrontations, impor tant events took place in the New Orleans courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Faced with contempt charges, the state college board capitulated and promised to register Meredith. To keep Barnett from interfering again, the court issued a sweeping order enjoining him, plus a list...
...demnification. Children and grandchildren will have to come to terms with that her itage as well as possible ... I am fully aware that after all that has happened my people cannot claim as a matter of course what is granted to other nations." But, hitting a point politically impor tant back home, Brandt urged...