Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public's affection for the bestseller was pallid compared with Wayne's. The Duke offered to buy the screen rights for $300,000. "I knew right away that Rooster Cogburn was a character that fit my pistol," he said. "He even felt the same way about life. He did not believe in pampering wrongdoers." Eventually, Producer Hal Wallis outbid Wayne-but Wallis provided an appropriately happy ending by hiring the superstar to play the role...
...Francisco State once ranked among the top public colleges in the U.S. It is now a sad symbol of the American campus destroying itself. All sides can share the blame: the minority-group students who made extravagant "nonnegotiable" demands, the divided faculty, the administrators who temporized, the hard-line trustees, the police who broke S.F.'s bloody student strike last winter at a cost of 120 casualties and more than 730 arrests. The past, though, is less important than the future: Is the violence finally under control...
...policy, especially as to admission qualifications and content of curriculum." Better communication among the different elements of the college is also vital: "Steps must be taken to bring president, faculty and students truly together in critical periods." Without such reforms, said the group, the future is bleak: "An overriding public opinion may force the conversion of San Francisco State and other colleges into screened and guarded camps, institutions of learning in name only and in reality isolated from the mainstream of American life...
...campaign. Emphasizing the court's importance as an instrument of "continuity with change," Nixon praised Warren for having personified "fairness, integrity and dignity" during his 16 years as Chief Justice. In his valedictory reply, delivered with an occasional quaver, Warren said of the court: "We serve only the public interest as we see it, guided only by the Constitution and our own consciences...
...taking on tough social questions where the pressures were very high." That penchant has, of course, kept Warren and his associates embroiled in constant controversy. The court has been accused of everything from coddling criminals and handcuffing the police to approving hard-core pornography and banishing God from the public schools...