Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene was ripe for Walter Mitty. Off the portside of the Army UH-1D ("Huey") helicopter was a sweeping view of a Viet Nam valley. The air crackled with messages from pilot to gunner reporting enemy fire from thatched huts in the village below. The gunner, a young towheaded boy with bubble gum bulging his cheeks, swiveled the M-60 machine gun into position and squeezed off a perfect burst into one of the huts. "That's the way, Jeff!" cheered the lad's buddy, above the whoppa-whoppa-whoppa din of the rotor blades. "Now hit that...
...added that he is committed, as always, to interpretation of the Constitution based on what is written in it and on what the framers intended. But a judge who one day reaches a welcome view for the wrong reasons may on another hold an unwelcome position. "I strongly believe that the public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of our Constitution itself and not according to judges' views of fairness, reasonableness or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges...
...international money to sup plant gold. He warned that reliance on "the barbarous metal" would ultimately lead to a drying up of reserves and re strictions on trade and capital flow. The U.S. (then holding some 57% of the world's monetary gold) prevailed with its view that creation of the IMF - a dar ing innovation for its day - would solve the problem...
This past winter, at their monastery near St. Louis, the Roman Catholic Redemptorist Fathers put into operation an electronic data-processing service de signed to provide "a 71-facet view of each practicing Catholic." Pastors who want to make use of the service must distribute a questionnaire to their faithful, then wait for the Redemptorists to feed the answers into an IBM System 360 computer. The 180-page printout that the machine delivers gives the pastor a cybernetic summary of his parishioners' religious attitudes...
...Board's present policy of refusing a student legal counsel or the right to a personal hearing in front of the Board." I am positive I never said this. No experienced member of the faculty committees is likely to make the mistake of prejudging substantial issues. In fact, my view is that the questions of giving hearings to students and permitting them counsel are among the more important issues the committee will consider. Fred L. Glimp Dean of Harvard College