Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grisly crime, irate citizens, torrential press coverage. In that situation, defense lawyers fear jury prejudice and seek a change of venue-moving the trial to some distant town whose citizens are as ignorant about the crime as possible. A sensible remedy, but increasingly dubious when it comes to notorious "national" crimes. In the age of mass magazines, wire services and network TV, how can any living American avoid hearing, seeing and reading every detail, rumor and opinion...
...argument advanced against the anti-deferment resolution is that universities are just like any other interest group, and that they should not voluntarily seek to surrender privileges they have won -- in this case, the deferment...
Insulated by an ever-lengthening edu cational process from the instant adult hood they seek, pressed by modern change and technology into a precocious appreciation - often misguided -of the world they face, they are amazingly resilient. Job Corps Sociologist David Gottlieb, 36, who was himself a dropout, finds in the Now People "a certain fidelity and loyalty that older people don't have." American G.I.s in South Viet Nam, for example, evince little envy or disapproval of their draft-exempt brothers-on-campus at home, despite student protests against their sacrifice. "This is an experience...
...result of men tal disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Last month the same appellate court reversed Shelter's conviction and ordered a new trial in which he can seek acquittal by reason of Freeman-style insanity...
There will be some expansion of Medicare benefits to cover the disabled receiving social security-1,300,000 more people on top of the 19 million already covered-and there is a good possibility that the Administration will seek new legislation covering air and water pollution, welfare benefits, nursing-home construction, health manpower and the reorganization of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...