Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students at his old high school demanded that his portrait be removed from a hallway. Why had the general interrupted his California retirement? "The whole country is drifting away from the principles that made America great," he says. In the past add: LeMay "the country had to use unorthodox methods to get out of the hole, and I think we're in that situation now. His critics charge that the "unorthodox method might employ is the H-bomb, and he has often sounded as if that is what he means. Not in regard to Viet...
...careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works as a representative of the nation's arts. There was some suspicion that his protest telegram might be a forgery, possibly committed by the Soviet Secret Service, which has been known to use this method when it wants to incriminate an intellectual for some reason. But many Sovietologists believe that the message may be authentic. Certainly, it rang with a poet's anguish, as it lamented the invasion...
Trouble was, the method systematically excluded the lower classes, particularly blue-collar workers and Southern Negroes, who might otherwise be qualified. Many a criminal defendant complained-not without reason-that such people hardly constituted a jury of his peers...
...federal court system moved to take jury duty out of the hands of the privileged few. The courts were obeying the Federal Jury Selection Act passed by Congress last March, which called on U.S. District Courts to submit sweeping changes by Sept. 23. The new rules provide a method of random selection from lists of registered voters, guarantee that jurors will be chosen from each county in proportion to its population. In the South, where many thousands of Negroes have registered in recent years, there will now be a vastly increased chance for them to serve on federal juries...
Congress is punishing students, but its method of punishment is far from direct, and in the process it may be hurting the federal agencies that it is really trying to help. A Defense Department Official said that denying NASA funds to colleges that bar recruiters would "serve to handicap" the entire military recruitment program on campuses. In that case, too, Congress may have actually played into the hands of militant students, who, by getting their college to bar military recruiters, see NASA, another vestige of the federal presence, removed from their campus...