Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Cincinnati, with reform-minded Charlie Taft later becoming county attorney. When Taft filed for governor, the county organization ordered a rousing anti-Taft vote "to show what Hamilton County Republicans really think of Charles P. Taft." To show what he really thought of the organization and presumably to protect his prestige in future elections, seven-term Councilman and Mayor (1955-57) Taft mailed 3,000 vote-seeking letters to city Republicans. Inevitably, the feud spread beyond Cincinnati. Anti-organization Republicans have taken up pens, are boosting Charlie and the Taft name by mail in Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and other...
Calling itself "Holy," a sect considers any "attack" on it too wicked to be tolerated in the public press. Would any but a group unsure of itself deny its critics the opportunity to sell their points of view in an open market of ideas? Is that which must protect itself by such censorship really worth protecting...
...West Germany. On the visit's eve, the two countries settled their longstanding and awkward dispute over German financing of the British army on the Rhine (the British argue that until wealthy West Germany gets its own NATO army, it should help pay the costs of others who protect it). To settle the issue, the British retreated farther than the Germans. They promised to maintain about 50,000 troops on the Rhine till 1961, and instead of the $132 million in support that they wanted for this year alone, they accepted some $100 million spread over three years...
Wrote Warren for the majority: "The judiciary has the duty of implementing the constitutional safeguards that protect individual rights. When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence." Added Warren: "In some Si instances since this court was established, it has determined that congressional action exceeded the bounds of the Constitution. It is so in this case...
...this news the marquis paled, objected feebly that the U.S. embassy (Chilean-born Cuevas is a U.S. citizen and married to a Rockefeller heiress) and the French police were both opposed to the duel. Le Pen, who habitually carries a revolver and a dagger to protect himself from Algerian terrorists and other menacing elements, replied icily: "Surely, you do not wish to engage a French officer and a Deputy in an affair of honor which will degenerate into a farce...