Word: potters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least 1,800 years before television caused its first headaches, bargain hunters in the slave markets of Rome submitted prospective purchases to a trial as nerve-racking as watching a badly adjusted picture tube. Before a slave was bought and paid for, he was forced to stare at a potter's wheel rotating rapidly in bright sunlight. If the flicker caused the slave to keel over, the deal was off. Seizures before the spinning potter's wheel were taken as a sign of "the falling sickness," the Roman name for epilepsy...
...Only a few months ago, New Frontiersman Byron White succeeded Charles Evans Whittaker, a Republican of conservative leanings, tipping the wobbly balance between liberal and conservative blocs. With Frankfurter gone, the old conservative bloc is now reduced to a chip: Tom Clark and John Marshall Harlan, occasionally joined by Potter Stewart...
Healthy & Busy. There is plenty to play with. Like a laird of the manor, Webb has supplied his tenants with almost anything and everything they want to keep them on the go. If a sufficient number want to play boccie, Webb supplies an alley. There are potter's wheels for the potters, easels for the painters. In a proliferation of more than 90 clubs and organizations, Sun City oldsters bicycle and grow vegetables, take pictures, dance, do exercises, sing, sew. act, bowl, swim, and play almost every kind of game from canasta to chess...
...Judge Potter Stewart [who was the lone dissenter to the majority decision] for TIME'S Man of the Year...
Words of the Author. In a decision written by Justice Hugo L. Black (see box*) and joined in by four other members, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. Justice William O. Douglas wrote a separate concurring opinion. Only one member, Justice Potter Stewart, dissented from the ruling.* Said the majority decision: The Constitution's "prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of the American people to recite as part...