Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was difficult for most people to fathom why Fortas, an astute attorney and author of a recent book that begins "I am a man of the law," would so jeopardize his position. Yet it was not the first time. Last year the scales against his confirmation as Chief Justice...
After asking to be told "where it's at," New York's Jacob Javits, acting chairman of the Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, was driven to a barnlike building in east Los Angeles known as the All-Nations Neighborhood Center. There, in a filth-encrusted gymnasium...
Elegantly Tailored. Javits' customary imperturbability did not survive the ordeal. Explaining lamely that he was the son of a poor immigrant in New York's East Side, the portly, elegantly tailored Senator blurted: "I had to eat starch when I was growing up." They booed him. Javits asked...
Student dissent has infected even the second-graders at Beauvoir School of the National Cathedral in Washington -or so says Senator Ted Kennedy. The morning after a stormy homework session with seven-year-old Ted Jr., he found the following note outside his bedroom door. "You are not ascing me...
U.S. campus disorders have incited many state legislatures to consider repressive measures, some well intentioned, some reminiscent of the know-nothingism of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Clearly, the political university must be viewed with grave misgivings. Writing in The Public Interest, Robert A. Nisbet, a sociologist at the...