Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently told an aide that friendly sources had informed him that both Hanoi and Moscow "are convinced that we are falling apart." Hanoi seems to think that its battered economy and bloodied army will endure longer than U.S. domestic support of the war, which adds up to an unfortunate judgment by the Communists and a gloomy prospect for tl ; U.S. But if Hanoi continues on its present course, the President is determined to increase U.S. military pressure as needed. The Communists, as the President observed recently, "have less to write home to mother about than I do." Just how long...
Within hours of the week's first session, members of the House had introduced four resolutions calling for an investigation of the thrice-divorced Justice's "moral character." Kansas Republican Robert Dole charged that Douglas had not only used "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint, but also in a number of 5-to-4 decisions of the Supreme Court." Democrat Byron Rogers of Colorado suggested that the romantic Justice might be retired under a law allowing for the removal of a judge "permanently disabled from performing his duties...
...nations with grievances still flock to it in hopes of getting moral backing for their causes.* In 1960, Liberia and Ethiopia asked the court for a judgment on South Africa's repressive racial apartheid. Last week, after six years of painful deliberation, 6,000 pages of evidence and a legal cost to all sides of almost $18 million, the court decided not to take up apartheid at all, dismissed the case on a technicality...
...would have paved the way for an appeal to the United Nations and possibly sanctions against South Africa. Instead, the court ruled by an 8-7 vote last week that the two countries had no "legal right or interest" in their claim and therefore were not eligible for a judgment. Two members of the court, Nigeria and South Africa, were appointed for the case. Their votes were predictable. But the permanent judges voted without political pattern. In favor of dismissing the case were Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Greece and Australia (whose representative, as the court's president, voted twice...
...desire to go back to 20 because he knows what 20 is in a way that 20 does not. It is a difference in perspective: youth's is flat, middle-age's is three-dimensional. It is the difference between ignorance and wisdom, impulse and judgment. The young think there is no tomorrow; middle age knows there is tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. The young want to dynamite the treasure vaults of life; middle age has learned the combination. The young think they know; middle age knows that no one knows...