Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief Justice was also worried, according to friends, that Richard Nixon, a man he heartily dislikes, would be elected President in November and fill the spot with a conservative.* Several Republican Senators, similarly convinced that Nixon would win in the fall, insisted that Johnson permit the next President to pick his own Chief Justice. But Johnson has tradition firmly on his side-John Adams appointed John Marshall Chief Justice a month before leaving office-and he will almost certainly ignore their demand. Immediate speculation as to his choice centered on two Associate Justices: Abe Fortas, Johnson's close friend...
...order of Edward Arnold. The heroine-Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur-spoke with a catch in her throat that accented her vulnerability. But she had a whim of iron, and when she urged John Doe or Mr. Smith to Washington, the nation's laws were rewritten on the spot. As the Girl Friday, she was the flip, half-emancipated helpmeet to the strong but bumbling American Male...
...Spot of Tennis. But conspicuously on hand was Richard King Mellon, who for the past 35 years has been the operative head of the empire. At 69, he is about to retire, and it is perhaps symbolic that there is no Mellon in sight as his successor. Of his two sons, one is pursuing a career in oceanography. The other, though he is now serving an apprenticeship in the family bank, is only 26. Paul's only son is making a career in city planning. So, when Richard King Mellon finally steps down, the Mellon empire will...
...opposition and accept an Administration bill banning mailorder sales of all guns or even a stronger version by Tydings requiring gun owners to obtain licenses and register their weapons. "Let the testimony show the need," declared Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett M. Dirksen, "and I'll be Johnny-on-the-spot in supporting...
...demonstrating, Judge Tuttle began hearing an appeal within six hours. Two days later he ordered the children reinstated immediately. In Americus, Ga., four civil rights workers were indicted on a variety of trumped-up charges; Judge Tuttle went to the town, convened a three-judge court on the spot, and freed the four. It was also Judge Tuttle who rebuffed Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and told him firmly that the U.S. Supreme Court must be respected. Barnett had made the mistake of asking Tuttle to ignore the court and grant him a jury in a contempt trial that grew...