Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible that some people may have been for Yorty in their ignorance in still believing that they had the right of free choice? It seems that free speech and free choice are only available to the so-called liberals in this country and that those having a difference of opinion immediately become labeled and shouted down in the press as well as on college campuses. Shades of the "McCarthy...
...uniform and in mufti have seen too many false starts toward peace to be carried away by what at best is a cautious attempt at disengagement. One cynical draftee dismissed it as "strictly political." Another G.I. saw the move as evidence that "something is being accomplished." That division of opinion spoke for the capital and the country at large...
...Columbia Broadcasting companies, also went to court to argue that the regulations violated not only the Federal Communications Act but also First Amendment guarantees of free speech. Broadcasters, they said, would grow chary of controversy if they had to worry about a toughened fairness doctrine. In a unanimous opinion, the high court upheld the FCC in both cases. A license does not mean ownership of the air, said the court, "only the temporary privilege" of using it. Since the air actually belongs to the public, said the court, the FCC's fair play rules increase rather than curtail...
...Bridge is a good man, a man of principle. He prefers not to laugh at dirty stories, and gambling angers him. His actual faith is the familiar mixture of pragmatic boosterism and hard-shell propriety. "Civilization may not be rotting," he concedes. "My personal opinion is that if Roosevelt and his left-wing advisers do not undermine the freedom and security of this nation we should see advances in many fields of endeavor which will literally stagger the imagination...
...language of the majority opinion leaves open the possibility that a Supreme Court composed of members with different views may some day dilute the impact of the O'Callahan decision by defining broadly the kinds of offenses that are in some way service-connected. Nevertheless, the opinion establishes a strong precedent for wider federal court review of military tribunals in the future. That sentiment was best summarized by one sentence in last week's decision: "History teaches that expansion of military discipline beyond its proper domain carries with it a threat to liberty...