Word: order
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a very significant law-and-order standpoint, the Administration's action was also unwise. It cuts the ground right out from under responsible Negro leaders, like Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young and others, who have argued for the due-process approach, as opposed to violence and extortion in achieving Negroes' aims...
...Armed Services. The opposition leadership, more diffuse, fell to two men as widely esteemed within the Senate as Stennis: Republican John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and Democrat Philip Hart of Michigan. Senator Edward Kennedy, originally among ABM's most vocal critics, was persuaded to mute his opposition in order not to offend colleagues jealous of the publicity he attracts...
...order: "I would assume any [police] superintendent would issue orders to shoot any arsonists on sight." (April 15, 1968) "There wasn't any shoot-to-kill order. That was a fabrication." (April...
Even the whites had to admit that the black government was bringing a new vitality to the sleepy town. A city cleanup campaign was immediately launched, particularly in neglected black neighborhoods. Evers also made it clear that he was going to be a law-and-order mayor. Among his responsibilities is to serve as police justice, which gives clout to Evers' inaugural promise that there would be "no more clownin', and cursin' and disrespectin' people in the streets." Last week he fined a white from Louisiana $25 for reckless driving; a local black paid...
This does not give us a charter to continue turning earth into a planetary garbage dump; in an ecological sense, we must put our own house into order before we expand into others. But it is good to know that they are there-even though extensive alterations will be required to make them comfortable. Our generation has learned how to kill a world; the same powers can bring life to worlds that have never known...