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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected, would "disrupt radically the quality of life in California." Some rabid Brown backers have retouched photographs to show Reagan with a Hitler-like forelock and moustache; some far-out Reagan supporters display bumper stickers proclaiming: IF IT'S BROWN, FLUSH IT. Brown insists that the main issue is Reagan's glaring inexperience in government. Reagan retorts that the main issue is the persistent bumbling of Brown...
...child at using psychological terms as a substitute for reality," says Chicago Child Psychiatrist Dr. Ner Littner. "Nine-and ten-year-olds chatter away quite happily about sibling rivalry, talking of the urge they have to kill an older brother or sister. But adolescent psychologizing is in the main an intellectual exercise that only goes skin-deep...
...only party in the war to make concessions? Foreign Minister Joseph M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands had the bitter answer: "It is a well-established practice of totalitarian regimes that they declare themselves prepared for negotiations provided that the other side concedes in advance the main point at stake...
...until her retirement in 1956, knew all about the discovery method many years ago. She had all the school's heating pipes painted red and all the water-pipes blue. Then, when the children asked why, she let them follow the colors to the furnace and water main...
...regular. This process, involving over 90 per cent of the criminal cases, typically consists of informal negotiations between the attorneys and the judge as to what punishment will be appropriate if the accused pleads guilty, and whether the case may be dismissed. Plea bargaining is one of Vorenberg's main concerns, for as he told a national symposium on science and criminal justice in June, "these decisions are made -- usually by conscientious people -- operating under enormous time pressure and with little or no information about the background of the offender or the likely effect of any particular decision that...