Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some will condemn the Air Force Academy code that provides for expelling not only cheats but those who have knowledge of cheating and remain silent [Feb. 5]. Those strong enough to expose will be called stool pigeons. The name callers are the same people who would watch a neighbor being beaten and do nothing. The nation can't afford officers too weak to live by a strong moral code...
...lunches, laboratory equipment and research projects, and this year is no time to opt out. With President Johnson counting on vastly increasing the Washington aid and concentrating it on poverty-impacted districts, Alabama's share would double, the Carolinas' triple. Alabama's George Wallace is suddenly silent on the subject of federal intervention, which could bring Alabama $35 million just as he is seeking an extra $30 million for schools...
Latest case in point is Escobedo v. Illinois. In 1960, Chicago police questioned a 20-year-old Mexican laborer named Danny Escobedo until he admitted complicity in his brother-in-law's slaying. The police never advised Danny of his right to remain silent; he was not allowed to consult his lawyer. Because the lawyer had previously told him not to talk, however, Danny's confession was ruled voluntary. He was sentenced to 20 years for first-degree murder. The state's highest court also saw the confession as voluntary, and refused to toss it out merely...
Trial of Joan of Arc. With the exception of Carl Dreyer's silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), the numerous films about the martyred Maid of Orleans have contributed very little to art and less to the box office. The subject thus seems a natural for French Director Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket), who for more than two decades has been making austere, praiseworthy, but unpopular movies. Bresson's treatment of the Trial of Joan is characteristically ascetic; but it is also quintessential history, unique and timeless, graced with a master...
...McCann repeatedly declared that the opponents of the underpasses had been conspicuously silent on the issue of the "Inner Belt" highway, an eight lane expressway that would pass through the heart of Central Square and probably displace about 1000 families...