Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...client is in society's eyes, the more likely that Williams will take the case in order to demonstrate the constitutional guarantee of counsel to everyone. A full and fair defense is especially necessary for the defendent already condemned by public opinion. Political and moral problems, outside the legal process, threaten the individual rights of such people, he says...
With his reputation established as an almost legendary trial lawyer at the age of 46, Williams appears to be bored and may attempt something new. When asked what excited him most, he replies, "Nothing right now," even though he is in the process of defending the accused assassins of Malcolm...
Rapid urbanization has vastly complicated both transportation problems and their solutions. Urbanization is a global phenomenon (soon more than half the world's population will live in crowded cities), but it is nowhere more vivid than in the U.S., which is amid the sometimes painful process of jamming 85% of its population onto 2% of its land-an astounding change for a nation so recently rural. Hand in hand with this transformation has been the extraordinary spread of the auto: the U.S. auto population has tripled to 90 million in 20 years, is now growing eight times faster than...
...autos, trucks and air travel nibbled away at the railroads' markets. Belatedly realizing that one track that led to greater efficiency was merger, the railroads since 1956 have persuaded the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve 26 mergers. Getting approved for a merger, however, can be a long-term process: the Pennsylvania-Central merger in the East, which has every logic in its favor, is moving at milk-train speed...
...presidents of the two schools play down the rivalry. Yet each is willing to take a velvety swipe at the other institution, and in the process they characterize the schools rather accurately. M.I.T.'s Johnson, who moved up from the deanship of its Sloan School of Management to replace the retiring Julius Stratton, calls Caltech a "helpful collaborator and competitor." He says that "over the years, M.I.T. has concentrated more on applications of science than pure science," rightly claims that "the range of work we do in engineering has no duplicate at Caltech-their whole school is smaller than...