Word: interest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opposing his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, liberal members of the Senate Judiciary Committee embarrassed both Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. and his sponsors when they charged the South Carolina jurist with conflict of interest. Their disclosures about his business connections and stock purchases raised serious questions about Haynsworth's judicial ethics, shook the confidence of his supporters and gave his opponents an unexpected advantage in their fight to prevent his confirmation. But as hearings on Haynsworth's appointment concluded last week, it became obvious that the liberal advantage had been only temporary...
...full-scale mock-ups of the Apollo 11 command module, the lunar module ascent stage and other space hardware may interest engineers and kiddies, but most county fairs have displayed similar NASA road shows for years...
Consider this summer as an example. After a weak start with an expose of overly-loud music at rock'n'-roll halls-a topic that never caught the serious public interest he hoped for-Nader coverd a series of weightier topies. In July, he told George McGovern's Special Senate Committee on Nutrition about the built-in dangers of modern American food, he was later invited to serve on a White House panel on the subject. Shortly afterward there was an exhaustive report on the threat of "brown lung" for workers in textile mills-a report that surprised many public...
...specific proposals Nader suggested were not really startling. To spread the kind of public-interest work he has done on a few industries. Nader urged the students to start in on immediately available targets, like local governments and corporations. To keep the work going, he said that groups of professional students should promise to give some portion of their future earnings to support their classmates doing public interest projects...
Gruson said last night that about twelve development firms have expressed interest in the job, but that Rose and Associates appeared to be "the most qualified." Howard B. Waitzkin, a second-year Med School student, said at the meeting that a local developer experienced in cooperative housing had approached Gruson but was not even considered...