Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only the qualities of an efficient administrator but also a badly needed talent for improving police relations with Negroes and Puerto Ricans. » Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, 59, a Nebraskan who served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Eisenhower Administration and later as chief counsel of the Warren commission. » Budget Director Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree in public administration, who served as chief examiner for housing programs in the Federal Budget Bureau and deputy director of the community action program in the Office of Economic Opportunity. » Thomas Hoving...
...First Amendment guar antee of freedom of speech by refusing to grant him his seat. The right to make such statements as Bond's "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card" would not be denied a private citizen, wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren in the court's decision. All the more should they not be denied a legislator, who has, in fact, a duty to speak out on controversial questions so that his constituents can know where he stands...
James Joyce and Richard Condon, John O'Hara and James Michener, Philip Roth, Budd Schulberg, Saul Bellow, Robert Penn Warren. In 1960, when Cerf acquired the house of Knopf, the names of Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Hersey and John Updike joined the parade. Cerf's biggest book of the year is the 2,059-page Random House Dictionary of the English Language, which took a decade and $3,000,000 to put together. Amazingly, for a reference book, it has been on the bestseller list for six weeks, and the first printing...
...Langley. He rejected it, reporting that "40 pages of this magnolia-laden junk was all I could stand." Lion, published later by Whittlesey House, sold 250,000 copies. A more recent example is the history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list of classic and not-so-classic pornography. "But he kept stalling, so I finally said, 'If you don't deliver it on time...
...last meeting this month, the Faculty voted not to consider a resolution that condemned the 2-S deferments as "unjust." Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who introduced the motion to table the anti-2-S resolution, argued that the Faculty should not consider "abstract" questions...