Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
...power. Though still in the high command, he became less influential than the more moderate Ferhat Abbas or the two military commanders of the Kabyles, Amar Ouamrane and Belkacem Krim. The newer leadership aimed at combining the fighting in Algeria with diplomatic maneuvers and appeals to world opinion. Abbane protested against the new line loudly and ineffectually, was often seen eating a solitary meal in cheap restaurants. One day he disappeared from Tunis, was rumored under house arrest until last week's notice of his death...
...that weightlessness has almost no effect on it. This is only the beginning. Before manned space flight is realized, more Sputniks with animals on board will have to be launched. Return to earth is necessary for a manned space craft, and this problem, too, has not been solved. "My opinion," he says cautiously, "is that in the next 20 years we may ship men out to the neighbor planets...
Birth Boom. What Newsday's readers got was Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world...
...Nixon's stand for revision was enough to transform him into a hemisphere hero. Said Caracas' El National: "Nixon [did] not lose sight of the vast problems of Latin America, which have nothing to do with Communism, and Nixon has moved a large section of North American opinion." Said the Mexico City weekly Siempre: "We stand with Mr. Nixon...