Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument against judges is that a broader man is often to be found elsewhere. And some see Supreme Court Justices as a breed apart-historians, prophets, politicians and philosophers, as well as judges. "The correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court," declared Felix Frankfurter, "is zero...
That is questionable, however. In the week prior to the march, many of the more radical elements of the peace movement discussed massive civil disobedience as a protest tactic...
...Prior to last week's leap into the jet age, C.A.L.'s coffers were filled chiefly by the wages of war. Charter work in Viet Nam uses 19 of its aircraft, and China Air pilots have been shot at by Red Chinese, Pathet Lao and Viet Cong. Admitting that he has no clearer picture of the Viet Nam war than anyone else, 55-year-old President Ben Y.C. Chow, a former Chinese-air-force lieutenant general who retired in 1964 to take the controls at C.A.L., is nevertheless planning for a more peaceful future. "Everything...
...immensity of the change is spectacularly highlighted by the contrast with the decade of the 1950's. The complaint then was about the silent or apathetic generation, the generation of pre-organization men. The only prior decade which had given warning of the shape of things to come was the 1930's. But then students were adjuncts to the efforts of trade unionists, or of socialists and communists of the old Left, or of isolationists, America Firsters or pacifists. They were auxiliaries. They did not stand in their own right as a potential force in history...
...three other psychiatrists had analyzed the patterns of Hall's behavior and concluded that he was not under the influence of drugs, including LSD. Hall, said Dr. Griffith, was probably the victim of a sudden "psychiatric illness of psychotic proportions" that erupted "less than 24 hours prior to his death...