Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With Administration backing, the New York agency of SSC&B is preparing a worldwide advertising effort to pressure North Viet Nam to allow impartial inspection of its prisoner-of-war camps. It would be one of the final ironies of Viet Nam if its great issues were settled on Madison Avenue...
...demonstration was held anyway earlier this spring and, though police soon broke it up, Israelis were jolted by the sight of Jew fighting Jew. Since the first protest, the Panthers ("Madison Avenue couldn't have picked a better name," says Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek) claim that they have signed up 9,000 members...
Scholars have lambasted court rulings that go back as far as the seminal Marbury v. Madison decision (1803), which asserted the court's power to overturn congressional legislation. They gasp at the Dred Scott case (1857), which denied that a Negro could be a U.S. citizen. They are still apoplectic over Koreinatsu v. U.S. (1944), complaining of its shabby justification for interning 70,000 Japanese-American citizens. Just as they winced throughout the Warren years, they are beginning to look askance at the Burger era. Says University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland: "We have no evidence yet that...
...ABSENCE by Madison Jones. 280 pages. Crown...
...feeds, Gimme Shelter is the product of slick, tabloid sensibilities, which is not to say that the filmmakers may not be sincere. But what remonstrance is possible to someone capable of saying, as Albert did, that "I think we would have been disappointed if everything had stopped just at Madison Square Garden." It not for the Angels, and if not for Meredith Hunter, described to me by David Maysles as being dressed in a "nigger zoot suit, straight out of the nineteen-fifties, you wouldn't believe him if you saw him in a fiction film," the Maysles would have...