Word: outspoken
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...heels of Case's attack came an outspoken rebuke by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. His forum was a convention of the Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace, a 950-member group that wants to end the bombing. Morton acknowledged that he once supported Johnson's Viet Nam policies, but declared: "I was wrong...
Stephen Smale, the outspoken war critic and mathematician from the University of California at Berkeley, has received the support of six Harvard faculty members in his struggle to retain a $250,00 grant from the National Science Foundation...
Even Death. Last week the most publicized test case so far got under way at a pretrial hearing in Massachusetts. Mounting the attack was an outspoken, cigar-chewing attorney named Joseph Oteri. A 36-year-old ex-Marine captain who currently serves as counsel for the National Association of Police Officers, Oteri is not the sort usually expected to be behind such causes, but the marijuana law "gripes me," he explains. "The hazards of marijuana are a myth." As a means of proving it, he took on the defense of Ivan Weiss and Joseph Leis, two college dropouts charged with...
...Common Market. The governments of Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany all favor British entry. Continental businessmen want a crack at the 55 million potential customers in Britain; the European public would like to line up with such a swinging partner; and even Germany's most outspoken Gaullist, Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, now feels that British admission is necessary to help Europe narrow the technology gap with...
...Paris bureau, he was dubbed "Blouson Noir" ("Black Jack et," or "the tough one") by irritated fashion designers, who even crossed to the other side of the street when they saw him coming. As a trade-publication reporter, the supposedly genteel Fairchild had turned out to be an acerbic, outspoken critic of fashions. If Paris designers were relieved when he left in 1960 to become editor of Women's Wear, it was the New York fashion world's turn to be surprised. As New York Times Fashion Writer Marylin Bender put it: "He shook up his dominions, unnerved...