Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goodpaster is determined to end any remaining prejudice against women. Says he: "Revised attitudes have to come. Anyone who won't accept women at West Point shouldn't be here...
...Douglas MacArthur told a congressional investigating committee in 1901 that while being hazed as a cadet at West Point, he was forced to do deep-knee bends over broken glass until he fainted...
...operating in heavily populated areas. Said Hendrie: "In some of the older sites, the population density is such that evacuation might not be entirely successful in the worst kinds of accidents." He refused to specify which plants he had in mind, but two possibilities are the ones at Indian Point, 36 miles north of New York City, and Zion, Ill., 41 miles north of Chicago...
...moving talk, Simone Veil, a French Jew who survived Bergen-Belsen and is now President of the European Parliament, recalled how the music of gypsy fiddlers had bolstered the morale of the camp's prisoners, until one day the music stopped. She pledged her support for a ten-point list of demands that gypsy leaders presented to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week. It asks, among other things, for an official acknowledgment of the Germans' responsibility for the gypsies' wartime persecution and an end to discrimination in jobs and housing, free access to campsites and a "reeducation program...
According to the testimony, Bird and Justice Mathew Tobriner, both liberals, frequently had note-taking aides sit in on their conversations with conservative Justice William Clark because they did not trust him. The antagonism between Bird and Clark reached the point where the chief justice refused to speak to either him or his clerks. More important, the testimony indicated that the court's procedures were slow, cumbersome, even archaic. That view was echoed by Robert Thompson, a former California appeals court justice, who told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that the court was taking on too many cases...