Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey in Chicago and was one of the men in the running for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Yet, according to Look, he is "enmeshed in a web of alliances with at least six leaders of La Cosa Nostra." In that web, Alioto provided mobster friends with "bank loans, legal services, business counsel and opportunities, and the protective mantle of his respectability. In return, he has earned fees, profits, political support and campaign contributions...
...only muddied it with elusive psychological considerations. For example, one California appeals court recently upheld a doctor who had performed an abortion on a woman who psychiatrists said might commit suicide if she did not have one. Thus the law did not clearly define the boundary between criminal and legal abortion...
...court did not deal with constitutional issues raised by California's new law, the Therapeutic Abortion Act of 1967. The decision did suggest, though, that the new act makes it easier for a doctor to decide when he may legally perform an abortion. Roy Lucas, a lawyer on the board of the Association for the Study of Abortion, believes that the new act is still too vague, but applauds the new ruling. He believes that it provides a weighty precedent for court action in other states and affirms a legal trend in recent years that would make all such...
...that "it represents a singularly irresponsible abdication of a teacher's obligations to students. By encouraging students to persist in such activity-even, indeed, by failing to take positive action to dissuade them-a teacher thereby places such students as look to him for counsel and example in both legal and disciplinary jeopardy...
...University of Houston President Philip Hoffman, "that we are not going to hesitate to bring in the police or the district attorney whenever violence threatens property or life and limb." The University of Miami established a new security office last May; its first director, Fred Doerner Jr., a former legal counsel for the F.B.I., has since hired an assistant and 32 uniformed guards to patrol the campus round the clock...