Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provocation to the Soviets. Similarly, the U.S. had suggested that the votes of West Berlin's own electors be dropped into a separate urn to underline the city's position as a four-power occupied area; on this "special status" of Berlin hangs much of the Western legal argument at Geneva. But the boss of West Germany's Bundestag, Eugen Ger-stenmaier, capturing the mood of many patriots, was determined to dramatize the opposite-that West Berlin indeed is part and parcel of the Federal Republic, which, according to a West German Constitutional Court ruling...
South Viet Nam, under President Ngo Dinh Diem, an ascetic Roman Catholic, four years ago closed down its opium dens, which had been legal throughout the years of French rule, and shut up some of the fanciest whorehouses in the Far East. So successful has the government been that there is only a small clandestine traffic in opium across its borders...
...Legal Limit. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., an outraged citizen complained to police that a bootlegger refused to serve him liquor on election...
...disputed internal-security decisions laid down by the Supreme Court in 1956-57, none stirred up more wrath than the Jencks case ruling. Its gist: a defendant in a federal criminal case had a legal right to examine pretrial statements of Government witnesses. Warned Justice Tom Clark in his dissent: the decision granted criminals a "Roman holiday for rummaging" in FBI files...
...there. Finally facing a federal court's no-way-out order for token integration at September's school opening, the county board of supervisors refused to appropriate funds (budget: $780,000) to open the 21 schools and run them this year. Unless Negro plaintiffs can find a legal lever to force open school doors, Prince Edward's 1,304 white children will henceforth be educated in makeshift classes at the safely segregated churches, its 1,646 Negroes mostly in the tobacco rows...