Word: unpopular
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Clarence Darrow represents some of the best America that we can remember -a rugged liberalism long before it was gilded with chic, the common man invested with intellect. In a nation of somewhat disheveled justice, Darrow did genuinely unpopular things as a lawyer from 1878 to 1938. He saved Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty, defended blacks against rape charges, kept the lynch mobs from the Haymarket "conspirators." He was an honest and useful...
...doubt the Nixon administration and the Pentagon will continue to allow and tacitly encourage U.S. military personnel to help prop up illegitimate and unpopular regimes in which the American government and economic interests have large investments. Junior Cambodian officers told American reporters last week that Americans frequently advise and plan strategy for Lon Nol troops all around beseiged Phnom Penh. Such involvement will probably increase as the Khmer Rouge assault intensifies and achieves more successes like this week's capture of the former royal capital of Oudong...
...more than police and publicize violations of the Cooper-Church amendment. Last week the Nixon administration asked Congress for $850 million in economic aid--an increase of over $200 million from last year--and at least the same $106 billion given in military aid last year to support the unpopular dictatorships and prevent Southeast Asia "from going Communist...
Shockley did have at least one bright spot in his week, however, when the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a statement criticizing "attempts to suppress unpopular opinions...
...AMERICAN Association of University Professors' attack last week on "attempts to suppress unpopular opinions" concerning race and intelligence addressed itself to a largely nonexistent issue...