Word: whizzer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court bears little love for the press; an even deeper animus seems to reside in President Kennedy's appointee, Byron White. (He's not grateful either when newspaper accounts invariably recall that Mr. Justice White was once better known to you and me as Whizzer White, football star.) But each court attempt to redefine the press's responsibility in libel suits or criminal trials isn't necessarily tearing the First Amendment to tatters, neither are "American courts on a rampage" against the press, as former CBS Correspondent Daniel Schorr argues. Critics often lament court decisions...