Word: seesawing
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...Seesaw Score...
Actress Bancroft, the Bronxish beatnik of Broadway's Two For the Seesaw and the iron-willed mentor of The Miracle Worker, stretches her talents to astonishing breadth as Mrs. Jake Armitage, a British matron who believes that incessant procreation is what's right with the world, not what's wrong with it. This elemental drive brings her a swarm of children and several hard-pressed husbands, the last of whom (Peter Finch) jolts her out of bovine contentment by becoming a rich and famous screen writer...
...King is a man on a seesaw. He is a Negro in a white man's profession--one of two Negro lawyers in Albany, Georgia. Albany, a former slave-trading center, today is the home of the Albany Movement, probably the most vigorous local southern rights group. As chief counsel to the Movement, King has defended more than one thousand people arrested for civil rights activities in that city--as well as others, such as John Perdew '64, in nearby Americus...
...home for Christmas." And then the roof fell in. Out of the north swept swarms of "volunteer" Chinese Communist soldiers. Pouring across the Yalu River, they enveloped U.S. Marine contingents at Chosin Reservoir. Swiftly the Chinese pushed the U.N. forces back; MacArthur dug in for a bloody, stalemated, seesaw battle for little pieces of real estate. It was a new war. Christmas came and went...
Freedom of the press and freedom of speech were clearly established as constitutional rights in the very infancy of the Republic, when the ten amendments collectively known as the Bill of Rights were welded to the U.S. Constitution. Since then, the courts have refereed a seesaw struggle to define the line between freedom and license. Last week, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court unanimously advanced the boundaries of press freedom-and of free speech-farther than they have ever legally reached before...