Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hectic day yesterday and after a late lunch, I went in about 4:15 to get my afternoon nap," said Johnson, "and I dozed off to sleep immediately after I put my head on the pillow. And some time or other I awakened and I could hear a little soft music in the background and a lot of conversation, and I said, 'My, am I dreaming? Is Laurance Rockefeller back in town again?' And I got up and went out and pulled the curtain and peeped behind it and looked, and there was not only Laurance Rockefeller...
...explaining the bill on the House floor, "Doc" Morgan took the clinical view. "We must face the fact," he said, "that any new, all-purpose, wasteproof, foolproof, and low-cost model of a foreign aid program is not yet on the drawing boards." His soft sell was all the more effective because in the past Congress has been offended by overblown claims made for foreign...
...right interpretation. Last year the Illinois Supreme Court took the "hard" approach in People v. Hartgraves. It said that a confession is admissible even though the police do not advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence. Last January the California Supreme Court took the "soft" approach in People v. Dorado. It said that police failure to advise the suspect of those rights invalidates his confession even though he made no formal request for counsel...
...appeals court in Philadelphia unanimously backed the "soft" approach in a decision binding on all courts in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The decision is apparently retroactive: convicted prisoners may now appeal on the ground that their rights were denied even though they confessed voluntarily. The court left police only one loophole: the suspect may "intelligently waive" his rights. Does this mean that he needs a lawyer to tell him what he is waiving? And if grilling now requires the physical presence of a lawyer, will he not obviously advise his client to remain silent? Possible result: no more valid...
Quant & Mitzou. Under J. C.'s rule, 96% of Penney stock was in soft goods, cash was the key word, and Penney's familiar black and mustard-yellow signs were small-town landmarks. In Penney's new-look stores, 25% of the space is given over to such fast-moving and profitable hard goods as TV sets and washers; this year the company will move into plumbing supplies, nursery stock and musical instruments. The chain now has 5,500,000 charge-account customers who last year accounted for 30% of sales; moreover, it has opened 405 desks...