Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartment, two deputies were blocked at the door by the 6-ft. 2-in., 225-lb. fullback. "If you're coming in, you're going to have to go over me," snarled Brown and, said the deputies, straight-armed one officer seven feet back into a wall. Police reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense. After taking a look at his blood-spattered apartment and German Model Eva Marie Bohn-Chin, 22, lying semiconscious below his balcony, they arrested the former Cleveland star on charges of felony battery against a peace officer and assault with intent to commit...
Among the Founding Fathers, James Madison was the man who cared most about building an impregnable wall between church and state in the First Amendment. As he observed, "the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one [religious] establishment may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever...
...specific First Amendment prohibition against an "establishment of religion." By an 8-to-1 vote, the court held that Madison's three pence test was more than satisfied; the New Yorkers, it said, were entitled to try to show that Congress really had breached the church-state wall...
Novelist and Journalist John Hersey has dealt with lofty subjects: death by holocaust (Hiroshima), extremes of heroism (The Wall), a man against the sea (Under the Eye of the Storm). So, at first glance, a sordid shooting in a seedy motel during last summer's Detroit riots hardly seems potential material for him. Yet out of these unpromising ingredients, Hersey has fashioned a book, The Algiers Motel Incident (Knopf; $5.95) that measures up to his better work. "This episode," he writes, "contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the U.S.: the arm of the law taking...
...ordinary times, U.N. Alloy Steel Corp. would scarcely be a phenomenon to excite Wall Street. Even though the ten-year-old, Boston-based firm, which imports and distributes Japanese and Austrian specialty steel products, showed an 18% return on its invested capital, its profits last year reached only $315,529. It operates with seven warehouses and 30 salesmen. Yet last week, when Alloy Steel brought out its first public issue of common stock, eager buyers not only snapped up the entire 358,150-share offering at $10, but bid the price up to $19 a share in the first hour...