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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should take. They are the "mix in the carburetor"-a good court needs Justices from different backgrounds. In applying the law, in his view, the Justices should not be as concerned as they sometimes have been in "squeezing" judicial decisions into a neat pattern. They should instead make full use of all the modern tools; not only law, but medicine, psychiatry, mass psychology, economics and social engineering. Fortas himself is thinking of equipping his office with a computer console to tap the memory bank of social knowledge and data assembled by the Russell Sage Foundation, of which...
Murder & Dope. Former Ranger Warlord George ("Mad Dog") Rose testified that Fry let the gang use the church basement as headquarters and then warned them about police raids. He said that Fry had even relayed a murder assignment to Rose. Mrs. Annabelle Martin, mother of eight Rangers, said that Fry allowed reefer parties and armed thugs in his church. Asked to repeat this to his face, she turned to Fry and said: "He can sit in my lap and I'll tell him the same. What do they teach those kids in that church? How to murder...
...bitterest and prickliest issue in Canada today. Trudeau advocates a strong Canadian federation. Though he is French-Canadian, he is more firmly opposed to a separate status for Quebec than a number of English-speaking politicians. The new Prime Minister is committed to a policy of spreading the use of French throughout the country and making the French Canadians feel at home outside Quebec. Already, Trudeau is appealing to young Quebecois to go out and "see how beautiful it is in British Columbia, see how the Atlantic breaks on the granite shores of Newfoundland, see the tremendous adventure that...
...first major clashes in Canton broke out at Sun Yat-sen University, where students are bitterly divided into radical and conservative groups. As with most factions elsewhere in China, their enmities are based less on ideology (both groups use names connecting them with the Cultural Revolution) or loyalty to Chairman Mao Tse-tung (both idolize him) than on matters of self-interest. The conservatives want to get on with school and closer to prestige jobs, while the hotheaded radicals enjoy the disruptions that keep them from being reassigned to farmwork...
Rough Treatment. The dissatisfaction stems in part from the army's broken promise to hold presidential elections in 1966, its cancellation of the political rights of hundreds of Brazilians, and its use of censorship to keep a tight rein on TV, movies and theater. Moreover, Brazil's minimum wage is a meager $39 a month...