Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip to Laos, another Saigon government was thrown out of office). The ambassador even sent to Washington a memorandum listing some 20 points that he hoped to discuss at length with Bundy; they ranged from whether Taylor should fly to Washington to brief Congress some time soon to the paramount question of whether the U.S. should extend, and possibly escalate, the Vietnamese...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Paramount's 1951 movie version of Sidney Kingsley's excellent play Detective Story, with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker...
Speaking for the Supreme Court, which viewed TV news films of the entire incident, Justice Arthur Goldberg said that "the students were wellbehaved throughout." What the police feared, he added, was white reaction; their paramount duty was to protect rather than attack the peaceful Negroes. Out went Cox's first conviction, by unanimous vote-along with Louisiana's "unconstitutionally vague" breach-of-the-peace statute...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Steve McQueen in an outstanding performance as an introverted soldier in Paramount's Hell Is for Heroes...
Obviously not, says Currie, whose major contribution is the "governmental interests" doctrine that settles conflicts according to which state has the most interest in each particular case. In this one, argues Currie, New York was most affected because of its paramount interest in the welfare of resident children. Since the embattled secretary's child could have become a public charge, Currie would have applied New York law, under which the girl could have won. Each state, he says, "should apply its own law to effectuate its own legitimate interests, defined with moderation and restraint in the light...