Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week's spat grew out of a case in which the court ruled, 5-4, that Convicted Murderer Willie Lee Stewart was entitled to a new trial-his fourth-because of a legal error that technically violated the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against forced selfincrimination. The error: when Stewart testified at his third trial, the prosecutor asked him whether it was true that he had not testified at his first two trials. Felix Frankfurter leaned forward to dispute that decision and. as he almost always does, added some pungent remarks to his written dissent. He chided...
Fear & Confidence. The Houston gossipists' spit-spat has been building ever since Roberts abruptly announced 20 months ago that after 23 years on the Press he was quitting to accept a better offer from the Post Press Editor George Carmack frantically placed long-distance calls for a replacement. When none appeared, he took a slow look around his own city room, finally tapped energetic Maxine, mother of two, who had worked for Roberts since 1956 and knew all of her old boss's news sources. "I was petrified." says Maxine. "I couldn't eat. I couldn...
...best minds of my generation Destroyed-Marvin Who spat out poems...
...world for its policies, and facing money troubles after a decade of opulence. Belgium no longer could contain its frustration. Last week half a million normally quiescent Belgians erupted from their homes, marched in grim phalanxes through the major cities. The more zealous ripped up cobblestones, overturned autos, spat on police. All over the country, workers went on strike and took to the streets...
...labor, vote for Kennedy, then drummed up old-fashioned party loyalty everywhere else. They got an unexpected break in the last week, courtesy of Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who egged on the group of rowdy Republicans who jostled Johnson and his wife Lady Bird in a Dallas hotel lobby, spat at him, roughed up his wife's hair. Johnson therefore played the martyr's role like an old pro. Dallas County stayed as Republican as ever-Nixon got 149,333 votes, 23,972 more than Ike's 1956 mark-but in the central and east Texas rural...