Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Difficult as it is for the police to perform their appointed jobs within the restraints of the law, the problems facing the courts may be even tougher. A U.S. citizen haled before the bar has every right to expect swift and impartial justice. Too often he gets neither. "Our system of justice deliberately sacrifices much in efficiency and even in effectiveness in order to preserve local autonomy and to protect the individual," says the commission. "Sometimes it may seem to sacrifice too much...
...Promises and piecrust," observed Dr. Swift, "are made to be broken." By ignoring such cynicism, California's Ronald Reagan risked a lot of pastry. During his election campaign, the new Republican Governor had pledged "sound financial management," and last week had the crust to demand the highest budget ever proposed in any American state, buttressed by the biggest tax boost in California history...
...film, Succeed often fails by seeming to run in place. Director David Swift has staged far too many of the numbers simply as people singing songs, with the camera standing by as an admiring observer. There is nowhere near enough sight humor to justify the billing "visual gags by [Cartoonist] Virgil Partch...
...answer is to make punishment for the criminal use of dangerous weapons swift, sure and effective...
...Schollander nosed out Shrout in the 50-yard freestyle with a swift 22.0 clocking. He also swam a leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay, which Yale won on a come-from-behind effort by captain Doug Kennedy...