Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cross blazon roared up. Driven by a young Vietnamese with his head swathed in bandages, it carried a Buddhist monk and a young girl with a bandaged arm. They had a message: the press was invited to Tinh Hoi at once for an announcement. Grabbing cameras and note pads, some 35 newsmen set out for the pagoda, passing first through government lines, then the firing pits of the Tinh Hoi compound filled with rebel soldiers. Among them were TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William McWhirter...
...making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note is harming the entire society, for every bill in circulation contributes to the wealth of the society. Stretching the theory just a bit, one might well say that the man who makes a false bill and introduces it into circulation is doing society no harm...
Since the Redmonds were definitely not repeaters, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall asked the Supreme Court to reverse their convictions "in the interests of justice." Last week the court assented in a brief, unsigned order. In a curt note, Justices Potter Stewart, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas added that they "would reverse this conviction, not because it violates the policy of the Justice Department, but because it violates the Constitution...
...deep student of the sport could devote hours to a review of the games which have been played since Portfolio's yesterday, merely to note the rise and fall of the passing game...
...Party Congress last March, Brezhnev called for a "strengthening" of the Communist alliance, and later hinted at a Warsaw Pact meeting to be held, of all places, in Bucharest. Such a meeting would dangerously strengthen Russian restraint on Rumania's independence of action. By circulating the anti-alliance note, Ceausescu might well have torpedoed the meeting, and at the same time won greater maneuvering room for his own nation...