Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final forum of legal questions in the country, the Supreme Court's decisions should command public respect as being impartial and fair. If the Court were to rule on questions intimately involving President Johnson-such as the legality of the Viet Nam War-the impartiality of Justices Fortas and Thornberry might well be questioned. Herein lies the threat of cronyism to the Supreme Court; it can erode public confidence in its decisions, however fairly they were reached...
...circumvent the political manipulations of party leaders at state conventions, are themselves often open to distortion. Some, like Oregon's open primary, are sufficiently broad-based to reflect more or less accurately the voters' will. Yet the results of primaries can be nullified by the unit rule, which applies in a number of states and binds all of the state's convention delegates to vote in a bloc at least through the first ballot. Thus imposition of the unit rule can deny a candidate who barely missed winning a majority in the primary any delegate support from...
That shock of recognition-at the traumas of Viet Nam, riots in the cities, assassinations, the unresponsiveness of Congress-has led many to exaggerate their own political virtue. McCarthy loyalists have passionately protested the imposition of the unit rule in contests in which they have lacked a majority, but they have been just as ruthless as their opponents in invoking the unit rule when it worked in their favor. While the new politics of McCarthy has a refreshing directness, his followers have yet to establish that they themselves are above the petty manipulations that they condemn...
...Vice President Humphrey at the Los Angeles Palladium last week (Humphrey, ill at home, was a no-show), supervisors made sure that police were restrained and effective. The protesters went home quietly. A year ago, when President Johnson appeared at Century City, the cops not only violated an elementary rule of crowd control by leaving the demonstrators no avenue for exit, but inflamed feelings with gross misuse of force, helping to turn a demonstration into a riot...
...course, a lot of exceptions to the consensus exist, but almost every girl who beamed and said, "I've met some fabulous fellows here," admitted that these types were hard to find. As a rule, they don't saunter around Harvard Yard...