Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Possibly in response to criticism that the Law School had become too concerned with technical aspects of the law, Griswold told an appreciative crowd, "A dean feels some obligation of leadership, and if the Harvard Law School, through its Faculty activity and teaching, could shift its concern from the narrow objectives of much traditional legal scholarship, we might increase our contribution
...elections supported that statement. In the university town of Cambridge, the Tories recaptured a swing seat from Labor with a massive majority. In the London working-class district of Walthamstow West, once the constituency of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the Tory candidate won in a narrow upset. It was the first time that Labor had lost there since...
Amid this growing discontent, Congressional opponents of the war could have gone much farther in drafting them. They might have proposed new Constitutional restrictions on the Presidency--a rash technique tried 14 years ago when the Bricker Amendment limiting the President's treaty-making power met narrow defeat. To tie the President's hands for all time would have been a mistake then, and would...
Such a bond can cost a man a stiff $400-$500 a year - if he can get it. Op erating with an $85,000 grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bonabond provides such bonds cheaply and is a potent force in narrow ing the gulf between employers and men with prison records. Bonabond lists 355 vouched-for employables in its files, and in the past two months has placed people in 98 jobs, ranging from porter to police-community relations aide for the Urban League...
...Saigon's toughest slums, near the city's docks and up a narrow alley past teeming soup stalls, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Brenden of Minneapolis operate a center for teaching sewing and other skills to teen-age girls, a day nursery for children of working mothers, a Boy Scout troop among urchins. The Brendens, both Lutherans, arrived in Saigon last year under the auspices of Viet Nam Christian Service, a relief agency jointly sponsored by Lutheran World Relief, Church World Service, and Mennonites. The couple symbolizes the largely unsung efforts by U.S. churches to respond-as they have...