Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent court rulings added considerable heat to the debate. Arkansas' John McClellan, his voice hoarse and quaking, asked: "Do you favor a continuation of rulings that push the spiral of crime upward and upward? We had better quit trying to find alibis and excuses as to why the law cannot be enforced and get down to enforcing it." In one remarkable bit of rhetoric, Louisiana's Russell Long explained why American Bar Association lawyers opposed the attempt to curb the court. "They have a vested interest in crime," said Long. "Why should they give up the tools that...
...appeal to the Supreme Court, Duncan's lawyers argued that a jury trial is an integral part of "due process of law," which is guaranteed in the states by the 14th Amendment. The due-process clause has been frequently used to extend other parts of the federal Bill of Rights to the states, and a 7-to-2 majority of the court agreed that it also covers jury trials...
This feelie probably goes as far as the permissive law permits. Based on a novella by Violette Leduc, a gifted French writer who is an admitted lesbian, the film tells the old story of homosexual love between school chums. Therese is played by Sweden's pouty-lipped Essy Persson, and Isabelle by France's blonde, big-eyed Anna Gael. They make love with their clothes on in a toilet cubicle and the school chapel, and with their clothes off in bed and in the woods. There is also a prolonged bout of autoeroticism and, just for variety...
...which was directed to draw up position papers on such issues as poverty, the morality of public demonstrations, conscientious objection and the recruitment of Negro priests (of whom there were none at the convention). Other groups will examine the feasibility of popular election of bishops, the liberalization of canon law and, of course, celibacy...
...provoking air raids on Britain so that he could retaliate with mass bombings on German cities (TIME, May 10). Now Author Thompson, a British journalist turned war historian, says that Churchill, to save his own skin, fashioned a hero out of a so-so soldier named Bernard Law Montgomery. This will be news to those who have always felt that Field Marshal Montgomery alone was responsible for that singular achievement...