Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James V. Lavin, director of the fund raising campaign, said yesterday that the architects, I.M. Pei and Associates, probably would not finish their work until October. "Then we'll decide whether to raise $22 million or leave the fund as it is," he said...
...Dear Bob," the letter began, and went on to express New York Mayor John V. Lindsay's "deep gratitude" toward "one of the city's most venerable, respected, dedicated and effective public servants." The soft soap notwithstanding, Dear Bob was being fired from his powerful job as coordinator of the city's federal-state-city highway projects. Robert Moses, 77, once the master of the New York environment, including parks and beaches, is now left with only the Triborough Bridge, six other bridges and two tunnels to run. In a letter accusing Lindsay of "ripper legislation...
...police clearly need authority to stop and question anyone whom they "reasonably suspect" of committing or being about to commit a felony or serious misdemeanor. They justified the frisk on grounds of elemental safety. As the New York Court of Appeals put it in a key 1964 case (People v. Rivera): "The answer to the question propounded by the policeman may be a bullet...
...Supreme Court may have handed down a hint of its own attitude in last month's Miranda v. Arizona decision, which affirmed the rights to silence and to counsel as soon as a person is "deprived of his freedom of action in any way." On the other hand, defenders of stop-and-frisk laws see the court leaning their "reasonable" way because it declared in 1963 (Ker v. California): "The states are not precluded from developing workable rules to meet the practical demands of effective criminal investigation and law enforcement in the states, provided that those rules...
...Established in 1918 by the late Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, widow of the oil tycoon. Most of its grants, which have totaled as much as $7,000,000 a year, are given for medical education and community health...