Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began, "If I were asked what has been his specialty in the course of a long career, I guess I would say, 'Being wrong.' " Buckley did feel a little regretful about those programs, and has tried to keep the argument to the point rather than to the person. His favorite shows are those in which he meets his match, and in perhaps the best so far he was actually outpointed by James Farmer on the subject of legislating desegregation...
...alleged guilt immediately after the 1954 crime. The salvos came from all three Cleveland papers -the Press, the Plain Dealer and the News (since bought by the Press). One front-page editorial in the Press actually urged that Sheppard "instantly" receive "the same third degree to which any person under similar circumstances is subjected...
Applying that theory, the trial judge instructed the jury that a person who commits a felony is automatically liable for any death occurring in the course of that felony. So far, so good. But in California, the felony-murder rule applies only to felonies that are themselves "inherently dangerous to life." And grand theft, the felony charged against Dr. Phillips, is no such inherently dangerous crime. As a result, the high court was duty bound to reverse the conviction...
...crosses the line between liberty and license." Michigan State President John Hannah argued at the University of Maryland that "because we agree that each man is entitled to his own opinion does not mean that every man's opinion is worth as much as that of any other person." Hannah deplored "the arrogant assumption on the part of a few students that because they were born with brains they are chosen by Providence to make careers of criticism...
Outside four olive-drab sheds, which will ultimately house army latrines, 1,100 Vietnamese construction workers at Phan Rang last week excitedly queued up to cast what were, for almost all of them, their first ballots. When the free, secret election was over, they had chosen a ten-person "workers' council" to deal with their employer, the U.S. construction combine, which is led by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and known as RMK-BRJ.* Far from fighting the unionization, the combine sponsored it as one way to ease around a barrier it had not bargained for: labor unrest...