Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal and reform-minded students," the report stated, "can save or destroy the institution." The commission said that the "survival--literally the survival--of the free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations." For, it said, "resort to violence or physical harassment or obstruction is never an acceptable tactic for influencing decisions in a university...
...disturbances to a conspiracy of student revolutionaries." The report said that "the grievances of the rebels were felt by...probably a majority of the students." This support, it said, was felt even before the violent confrontations with the police. "Support for the demonstrators," the commission wrote, "rested upon broad discontent and widespread sympathy for their position...
Since that time, Fortas has been called upon to defend Johnson's former secretary, Bobby Baker, and to cover up for Presidential aide Walter Jenkins when he was arrested in Washington on a morals charge. Fortas's wife handles the Johnson family's tax accounts...
What the Times seemed to regard as a quaint exemplar of ranch-house politics takes on a more unsavory look in the light of at least one of the chores Fortas was apparently called upon to perform while he was a Justice. Early in 1967, Ralph Lazarus, president of the Federated Department Stores, predicted that expenditures on the war in Vietnam for the coming year would be some $5 billion over the President's public estimates. The next day Lazarus received a call from Justice Fortas, which the Times relates "was to transmit Lyndon Johnson's ire." Lazarus quickly recanted...
Harvard frosh aces Mike Koerner and Rick Jurgens are not in peak form, and the Yardlings may have to depend upon their relatively untested backup runners to break up Penn's scorers...