Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody calls us dirty and unwashed," he said. "We are the true Americans. We want America to stand for what the Constitution stands for, which is everyone equal under the law." He advised the crowd: "Sit out this election." As if anticipating what Muskie would say, he declared: "You are going to hear a lot of stuff, a lot of platitudes, about apple pie and motherhood. That's fine. But does it bring any sort of qualitative change? No!" Yet later, as Muskie praised American youth for "jogging our institutions," Brody nodded up at him and said...
...anew. No one questioned his legal brilliance. Fortas' opponents complained instead about his status as the appointee of a lame-duck President, and his role in enhancing the Warren Court's supposed softness on pornography and criminals. A typical objection came from Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker: "In continuing to counsel the President on such matters as the Viet Nam war, the riots, legislative proposals and the 1966 State of the Union address, Justice Fortas not only has committed a judicial impropriety but also has flagrantly violated the traditional separation-of-powers concept...
Abrasive Eloquence. Another Panther was having his problems with the law last week. The Panthers' "minister of information," Author Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice), was ordered back to prison for violating his parole from an assault conviction. Cleaver became involved last April in a firefight during which the Panthers' 17-year-old treasurer was shot by Oakland policemen. Cleaver himself was wounded. As a result, his parole was revoked, and he was accused of assault with intent to commit murder. A lower court later freed him, ruling that Cleaver was being held because of his extremist political opinions...
...presidential campaign of 1968 is dominated by a pervasive and obsessive issue. Its label is law and order...
...plays Osborne's violent love story straight. He seems a trifle bored with Osborne's speechy psychological explorations of the Porter's past, and he has schopped out the character of Colonel Redfern, apparently calculating that the scene which develops parallels between Jimmy Porter and his doddering father-in-law stifles the play's dramatic progression...