Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marcus Cunliffe in the February 1968 issue of Commentary linked the assassination of Presidents to the excessive glorification of the Presidency and the consequent personalization of the whole of the Government. The latest shooting too is directly related to this drowning out of the mechanical, unglamorous aspect of government by the personal element. As the American system stands today individuals in positions of high power do make an immense difference but this tradition may be a failing of the system and not a merit...
...jury also heard Assistant Deputy U.S. Attorney General John McDonough state that Coffin, in the company of Co-Defendants Spock, Mitchell Goodman, 44, a New York writer, and Marcus Raskin, 33, a former White House disarmament aide, had delivered a briefcase filled with 356 draft cards to the Justice Department. McDonough testified that Raskin declared, "These cards are evidence of a violation of a federal law, and it is your duty to accept them." Film shot by a Boston TV crew of the draft-card-burning ceremony showed the fifth defendant, Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student, urging...
...trial with Spock, 65, the nationally-known pediatrician, are the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale University chaplain, Michael Ferber, 23, a second-year graduate student in English here, Mitchell I. Goodman '45, a New York-based author, and Marcus Raskin, director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington...
Ford also refused to grant separate trials to the two defendants requesting them--the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, and Marcus Raskin, co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Ford denied both the dismissal motions and the separate trial motions without comment...
...austerely decorated twelfth-story courtroom, the adversaries in the case gathered last week for the first encounter in what may be a long legal duel. The five defendants--Spock, Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, Harvard graduate student Michael K. Ferber, writer Mitchell Goodman, and former National Security Council staffer Marcus Raskin--were all there, each with one or more attorneys. So were Judge Francis J.W. Ford, who will hear the case, and assistant U.S. attorney John Wall, who will argue the government's side, at least at first. In addition, there was the usual knot of reporters...