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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, the main reason for Nixon's choice?Burger's stand on law and order ?may seem far less important than it does today. New issues and new problems almost certainly will arise, and may very well overshadow the controversies of today. The question before the court of the '70s may not be criminal rights but citizen rights. Columbia Political Scientist Alan Westin, for instance, sees an impending collision between the old system of government, which depends upon political parties and established bureaucracy, and the new demands for participation by the poor and the powerless. There will be constant...
...countryside searching for unexploded ammunition; every so often, when a big enough haul is accumulated, it is blown up on Omaha after the tide has come in. At Arromanches-les-Bains, snuggled between yellowish cliffs, pony-drawn buggies roll along the beach to show tourists the town's main attraction: Port Winston, the Allies' huge artificial harbor of 115 ferro-concrete caissons, each weighing 6,000 tons. Through Winston the Allies funneled 2,500,000 troops, half a million vehicles and 4,000,000 tons of supplies in the eight months after Dday. Only 40 of the caissons...
...peculiarly French subplot, the other main candidates-Socialist Gaston Defferre and Communist Jacques Duclos-are running for third place, primarily to establish their respective claims to speak for French workers. The real question is which of the front runners would inherit those votes in a runoff election, if all but Pompidou and Poher were eliminated (a runoff must be held if no candidate gets a majority in the first round...
...modest $500 million. Closer to approval, however, is a $1 billion dike-protected jetport 35 ft. to 55 ft. below the water level of Lake Michigan and connected to the Loop by six miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles out wouldn't be visible from the shore except as a large shadow from high buildings...
...museum has gone to great lengths to install the sculpture in settings that suggest the churches from which it came. The main entrance to the exhibition is a massive 12th century limestone portal from western France. Grotesque demons, beady-eyed saints, capitals, reliefs and niche ornaments are ranged on piers within a series of specially constructed pseudo-Romanesque arcades...