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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRESHMAN who has not been filled with advice from "experienced" elders and with stories of college "hangups" from friends is a rare exception. Ironically, the people who probably have the best grasp of freshman problems are seldom consulted, even though readily available. This group, which comprises the Freshman Dean's Office, sees two general areas where each new student has problems: Fear of his classmates and self regulation...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Brass Tacks The Freshman Dean's Office | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

TRUE GRIT. John Wayne has his finest hour in this cornball western comedy. His genial, self-satirizing performance as an aging lawman proves that his nickname, Duke, has seldom been more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 12, 1969 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...life so intense must exact its costs. Pike read, wrote and talked about theology, but he seldom had time to do his own serious thinking. Although books poured out of his typewriter as fast as words clicked off his tongue, he was not a theologian but a publicist of theology. His pace took its toll in personal as well as intellectual terms. He admitted at one point that he had become an alcoholic. He chain-smoked so frantically that he sometimes had two or three cigarettes going at the same time. But in recent years he had quit both alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Life on the Brink | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...evil operations of the Cosa Nostra [Aug. 22], particularly drug traffic. As a former narcotics court news reporter in Chicago, I can tell you that educated estimates attribute 50% to 80% of all crime to narcotics. It is a cruel form of slavery, and those addicted to heroin can seldom afford it without resorting to crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1969 | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...civil rights, and occasionally liberal in cases involving the rights of criminals. But above all, Haynsworth is a strict constructionist who subscribes to Nixon's dictum that "it is the job of the courts to interpret the law, not make the law." A desire for social innovation has seldom manifested itself in his legal judgments, and he seems an apt choice to carry out what Nixon envisions as a redefinition of the Supreme Court's role, steering it away from the activism of the Earl Warren court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: A Southern Justice | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

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