Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime N.R.A. member, I view the forthcoming gun-control laws with much concern. Nevertheless, the statement of N.R.A. President Harold Glassen, "We don't tell anyone to write his Congressman," is an outright lie. I refer to a letter addressed to N.R.A. members from the office of President Glassen, dated June 14, 1968, in which he urges "sportsmen of America" to express their views without delay to their Senators and Congressmen. Glassen further states that the ultimate goal of said gun legislation is complete abolition of civilian firearm ownership...
...Your excellent article on guns referred to my study of homicide in Philadelphia in 1958 and quoted a statement the National Rifle Association has often used to suggest that I, as a criminologist, favor their position about gun legislation. You further indicated that "Wolfgang has since modified that view...
...view of President Johnson's fondness for unexpected appointments, the nomination of Fortas to succeed Earl Warren was surprising only in its predictability. A close friend and adviser, whom Johnson had named to take Arthur Goldberg's place in 1965, Fortas has distinguished himself in three Sessions on the Supreme Court, closely following?and to an increasing degree leading?the activist bloc that has dominated the Warren court for the past 15 years. If he was not a surprise, he was, at least in one way, unique. The fifth Jew to sit on the bench?the others were Louis Brandeis...
...case; it became an article of faith. As a member of the court, Fortas has supported other decisions that have radically broadened the rights of defendants. "We're not just dealing with the criminal and society," he once told an attorney who was arguing for the police point of view, "but the relation between the citizen and the state...
...last months are devoted to examining questionable admissions applications, and a general administrative tidying-up. Last week, Crooks looked out from his seventh-floor office in Holyoke Center at his wide-angle view of Harvard Square. "Traffic in the Square has really been picking up the last couple of days," he said. "The summer school kids are coming, whether we are ready...