Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the U.S. satellites and the Red Sputnik whirled in space, an argument ricocheted through the U.S. defense and scientific communities. Who ought to command the U.S.'s space offensive-civilians or the military? Last week, in a special message to Congress, the President gave his answer. Its gist: civilians...
Using his special detailed-interview approach, rather than the pollster technique of one or two either-or questions, Lubell talked with hundreds of "housewives, farmers, workers, storekeepers, clerks and businessmen" in six farm counties and 15 cities. His most significant discovery, reported this week in his United Features syndicated column: the U.S. public, showing itself more levelheaded than many a Congressman and labor leader, stands eight to five against tax cuts, and even more strongly against general wage boosts...
Wrote Warren for the majority: "The judiciary has the duty of implementing the constitutional safeguards that protect individual rights. When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence." Added Warren: "In some Si instances since this court was established, it has determined that congressional action exceeded the bounds of the Constitution. It is so in this case...
...Constitution to determine the wisdom of legislation. The awesome power of this court to invalidate such legislation, because in practice it is bounded only by our own prudence in discerning the limits of the court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts of Congress unconstitutional. That, said Felix Frankfurter, ad-libbing in his opinion, was not much to boast about-especially since a good many of those decisions had later been reversed by the court itself...
...often starts with a folk melody, watches the company improvise while the orchestra plays it, then works out a finished dance movement and has a fully orchestrated score fitted to it. To prepare themselves for their hybrid dance styles, the go members of the company train in a special department of the Bolshoi School of Ballet...