Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach himself was both defendant and defense counsel. The court allotted eight hours-longest in memory-for oral arguments. Even Chief Justice Earl Warren was moved to note that the outcome of South Carolina v. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach would have "wide and profound implications in the life of our nation...
...Associated Press Managing Editor Rene Cappon was not ready to let the story drop. He suspected that there might be more to tell, and he was a conscientious enough journalist to put a routine note in his "futures file" as a reminder to check up on Negrón early in 1966. The transit strike finally out of the way, an A.P. reporter made a call to Negrón. Cappon quickly learned that he had another big story...
...find the masculine desire for a sanctuary free from feminine distractions both reasonable and flattering. There exists no feminine counterpart to either exclusive men's clubs or the French Foreign Legion. R.I.P., and it might therefore be fair to note a probable physiological difference in male and female reactions to extrinsic stimuli, a difference which would ably account for his charmingly vociferous demand for a haven from the havoc wrought by a pair of flashing (female) legs. I am sympathetic...
After the Deed. Lyndon Johnson, on the other hand, has apparently come to consider the guidelines as gospel. Even though he always goes out of his way to note that observance of the guidelines is voluntary, he also always acts as though anyone breaking through the guidelines is somehow defying the law of the land. Within the past year he has invoked the guidelines to enforce price rollbacks or holdbacks not only on steel, autos, aluminum, copper, and wheat and corn products-but also on such lesser items as mechanical pencils and catchers' mitts. During that same period...
...real estate, street railways, fertilizer and packing plants, and he had reigned six years as president of the Union Pacific (Jay Gould deposed him in a power struggle in 1890). Bored with business, he turned to intellectual pursuits. Eventually, like a proper Adams, he became a historian of some note, president of the American Historical Association, an overseer of Harvard. By the time he died in 1915 at the age of 79, he had become such a complete victim of the family compulsion to put words on paper that he had even written his autobiography. As Adams autobiographies go, Charles...