Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeal all abortion laws? Last month that suggestion came from Jesuit Theologian-Lawyer Robert F. Drinan, dean of Boston College Law School and chairman of the American Bar Association's family-law section. In attacking the limited-abortion plan, Father Drinan argued that repeal has "at least the merit of not involving the law and society in the business of selecting those persons whose lives may be legally terminated...
...from his extraordinary career as a traitor and a spy, he can claim another distinction. Because of his consummate duplicity, he is undoubtedly the only Russian agent ever to have been decorated with the Order of the British Empire and to have been awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit, an unwittingly fitting tribute from Franco Spain...
...financier may merit the honor even more than the philosopher. With Cornfeld putting up an office building and a host of new apartments to house his employees, the population of economically depressed Ferney-Voltaire has almost doubled, rising to 5,000; the town will be further enlivened by a nightclub that the flamboyant newcomer plans to establish. For the dedication of Cornfeld's new headquarters, clergymen and mayors of no fewer than 14 mountain villages were on hand. Proclaimed Ferney-Voltaire Mayor Roland Ruet: "I assure you that you are more than welcome here...
...about the founder of the Boy Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...
Sorry-wrong culprits! The real villains are surely (1) lazy, vacillating judges who stand aloof from life and decide cases by relying on technicalities cited from so-called relevant decisions instead of studying cases before them and dispensing justice on merit, and (2) the obsolete, phony argument that "ignorance of the law is no excuse...