Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military's authority to prosecute servicemen for off-base crimes, the U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether a court-martial is really a fair trial or just another means of enforcing discipline. "A civilian trial is held in an atmosphere conducive to the protection of individual rights," wrote Justice William O. Douglas for the court, "while a military trial is marked by the age-old manifest destiny of retributive justice...
...result" of Adam's sin, and quote also the second of the Mormon Articles of Faith, which states that "men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgressions." Unusual interpretations by smaller sects are noted elsewhere in the Reader. General William Booth's idea of a strongly centralized authority for the Salvation Army, the book points out, derived from a passage in the Book of Exodus...
...emerged with a sweet, sassy authority that is just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye's show-stealing rendition of William F. Buckley Jr. She starred in "Sugar Hill," a slice-of-life sketch that will be a feature of the series; the opener was more pungent than The Goldbergs, if not in a class with The Honeymooners...
...Christmas Tree begins, dozens of eager French schoolboys disembark at the Gare du Nord for a ten week summer holiday. One little mop haired cherub named Pascal (Brook Fuller) rushes into the arms of Papa (William Holden) and Papa's fiancee (Virna Lisi). All the kids are happy. All the parents are happy. Even the conductors and porters seem happy. It can never last...
...TRIAL OF DR. SPOCK, THE REV. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., MICHAEL FERBER, MITCHELL GOODMAN, AND MARCUS RASKIN by Jessica Mitford. 272 pages. Knopf...