Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHICAGO. Oct. 8-"There's nothing a defense lawyer likes better than a dumb cop." a reporter whispered this afternoon after the prosecution called its key witness in the "Chicago S" conspiracy trial to the stand...
Pierson took the stand this morning on the tenth day of the trial, the first test of the 1968 federal law forbidding crossing state lines to incite riots. The eight defendants, a cross-section of pacifist radical-Yippie leadership, are Abbie Hoffman, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Bobby Seale, Tom Tayden, and Rubin...
...that time, the Faculty had first voted down an endorsement of the October 15 moratorium-apparently because the moratorium was too political an issue-and then had turned around to approve a motion calling for a speedy withdrawal of U. S. forces from Vietnam-a political stand if there ever...
...partly in the differing ways in which the proponents of the two "political" resolutions argued their respective cases. Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, and others supporting endorsement of the October 15 moratorium spoke a hard line: they urged the Faculty to take an open political stand, and made an inadequate effort to ease the fears of those Faculty members afraid of opening future meetings to a flood of political resolutions having little or no connection with academic affairs...
Those who supported the withdrawal resolution, though they too called on the Faculty to take an overt political stand, laid greater emphasis on the unique nature of the case, and tried to reassure the Faculty members who feared that the resolution would be interpreted as the view even of those who voted against...