Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through careless use of hot plates, kerosene lamps, etc. CLAO has not brought such a case. Dr. Benjamin Sachs, the Health Commissioner, recently called a meeting of all agencies which come across elderly persons in this situation to discuss on a city-wide basis what should be done to protect these citizens, including the preservation of their legal rights against arbitrary, involuntary admission to institutions. It is to the credit of Dr. Sachs and to the Chief of the Health Department's Housing Division, Hilliam Ryan, that they have taken the initiative to alert all of us o this problem...
...take a stand against a HUAC subpoena. If Harvard proclaims its opposition, many other colleges may follow suit. Since Chairman Pool announced last fall that his committee would investigate civil rights groups, he will probably require more membership lists. If Harvard or any other college goes to court to protect its students, it is possible that it will be judged in contempt of Congress. But the precedents seem favorable to the colleges, and, with the present Supreme Court's sensitivity to infringement of civil liberties, the risks appear relatively slight...
...streets at night for fear of attack, a third have grown too cautious to speak to strangers, a fifth have become so terrified that they would prefer to move out of their present neighborhoods. More and more people report that they keep firearms at home for self-protection; watchdogs are becoming as popular as the friendly family pet. There is a growing tendency to believe that the Government cannot or will not protect the average citizen...
...facing the courts may be even tougher. A U.S. citizen haled before the bar has every right to expect swift and impartial justice. Too often he gets neither. "Our system of justice deliberately sacrifices much in efficiency and even in effectiveness in order to preserve local autonomy and to protect the individual," says the commission. "Sometimes it may seem to sacrifice too much...
Tactful Deletion. Not that Jackie is trying to protect her children from the past. "I want to help John go back and find his father," she told the newsmen. "It can be done. There was that stone his father placed on a mound during his visit to Argentina a long time ago, and then when I took the children there later, John put a stone on top of his father's. He'd like to go back to Argentina and see his stone, and his father's stone-and that will be part of knowing his father...