Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. TeenAgers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth racket about Manhattan as a pair of metro-gnomes in hilarious pursuit of Peter Sellers, a playboy pianist with a yen for footloose matrons...
...pursuit of compromise made the conference sometimes seem more like a political convention than a church meeting, as delegates caucused in hotel corridors and committee rooms to work out approvable resolutions. In the end, conference moderates, led by such powerful Methodist figures as Lawyer Charles Parlin and the Rev. Harold Bosley of Manhattan's Christ Church, devised a number of carefully hedged stands that satisfied the South without totally alienating the North's firebrand integrationists...
...Birdland has gone off the cool," says Owner Oscar Goodstein, in the simple pursuit of "good nightclub entertainment." Since modern jazz no longer makes many pretenses about being entertaining to the foot stompers, Birdland is now proudly presenting such audience winners as Dodo Green, DeeDee Ford, the Allegros and the Jive Bombers. The new acts have a "visual" appeal, Goodstein says, that brings some new cheer into the room. As for their music, it is mainly of the clang-clang-clang-baby school, played with the thumping beat of a garbage can rolling down a flight of stairs...
...minister, I can sympathize with Rev. Klunder's desire to act effectively in behalf of a very worthy cause. We must remember, however, that even in the pursuit of Christian ideals it is possible to conduct ourselves in a most unChristlike manner...
...agree with this contention," wrote Justice Hugo Black in last week's majority opinion. Though Virginia is undoubtedly empowered to regulate law practice, said Black, it cannot forbid trainmen "to gather together" and seek "the wisest counsel" in pursuit of their legal rights. In sharp dissent, Justice Tom Clark argued that the decision "overthrows state regulation of the legal profession and relegates the practice of law to the level of a commercial enterprise." Even so, Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia means that lay organizations across the U.S. may now attempt all sorts of experimental group plans to put more lawyers...