Word: intent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Justice John Marshall Harlan, writing for the majority in the Scales case, stated that a Communist may indeed be convicted-but only if he is an "active and purposive" party member. Thus the Justice Department must prove that the individual Communist has demonstrated "specific intent to accomplish overthrow." The job will not always be easy or even possible. But where it is, the U.S. will be able to throw U.S. Communists, of all degree and pecking order, into jail...
These three assorted craft patrolling the waters of Lake Texoma last week belonged to the Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
General Chang Do Yung, who appointed himself Premier, seemed intent on stamping out the evils of years in the space of a few days. To help Korea's starving peasants, many of whom have been forced to mortgage their crops at as much as 80% interest, Chang froze all loans bearing interest rates of more than 20% a year. To clear Seoul's slums, bulldozers were sent to raze acres of cardboard and tin shacks. The bewildered inhabitants were ordered to clean up the debris, then were trucked off to a barren new site, where they were bundled...
...hour was Tony Armstrong-Jones, the onetime bohemian and free-lancing photographer, who until only recently has had his critics. Once the bloom was off the groom, Britain's royalty-revering public made it plain that it was watching ex-Playboy Tony with a tolerant but suspicious eye, intent on making sure he did right by their Meg. Trouble was, there was little publicly that he could do. Royal protocol made working for a living unthinkable, and Tony had no wealth of his own, so Parliament upped his wife's allowance from...
...patterns, the work grows out of the "interactions, combinations, cooperations and oppositions" of Carter's four egocentric instruments, any one of which may clamor for attention over the voices of the others. Although the four begin to "cooperate and exchange ideas" as the work progresses, Carter was so intent on emphasizing their individual identity that he instructed the performers to sit in four separate corners of the stage. (The Lenox String Quartet, which played he work at Ojai last week, refused, said the arrangement would upset their coordination, but the Juilliard String Quartet has obliged to the extent...