Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your cover story on law and order [Oct. 4]. As a member of the "young radical" element in our nation, I feel greatly encouraged when a publication as influential as TIME speaks so clearly and honestly on an issue. Although I shall continue to voice my dissatisfaction with our present society, 1 now have renewed hope for the future of America...
...person cannot have a genuine respect for laws unless he respects the law and himself. Changing the laws will not help. Our attitudes need to be changed. I will not argue whether or not income tax evasion is comparable to violent crime. But the attitude that a little transgression is all right definitely is not healthy and clearly points to this nation's need for moral leadership...
...Mayor Lindsay in his attack on the campaign issue of law and order speaks of liberty. I find myself wondering if the liberty that he speaks of is the liberty to be afraid to walk the streets of a once-great city after dark, or the liberty to refrain from using its parks or the liberty of the people of that city to bolt and rebolt their doors and windows so that they may sleep free from the fear of being murdered in their beds. If this be liberty, then give me death...
...Your advocacy of "police calm" in the face of "verbal provocation," "filthy abuse," and "language, however violent" is irresponsible and ridiculous. To justify such acts in the name of the First Amendment is just absurd. Surely you must know that the law prohibits the use of obscene language in public places, disorderly conduct, violent language, and interfering with a police officer in the exercise of his duty. You might as well defend the shouting of "Fire!" in a crowded theater...
...plate dinners, and in checks through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas oil and Idaho potatoes; and M. H. Marr, an oilman worth about $10 million. However much money he has, the average Wallace booster is what Political Analyst Samuel Lubell calls a "recent getter," someone who has worked...