Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Camp Followers. The polls were not quite as beneficent as Kennedy might wish. The first Gallup poll matching the Democrats since President Johnson's withdrawal showed the New Yorker ahead of both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy in a three-way race (35% to 31% for Humphrey and 23% for McCarthy) and ahead of both again in a double race (45% to 41% against Humphrey; 46% to 37% against McCarthy). The margins were less than overwhelming, however, particularly since Humphrey is still not an announced candidate...
...lack of communication, insincerity, mindless cocktail-hour chatter-but they succeed with these tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin...
...broad enough to strike down similar jury death-penalty provisions in federal bank-robbery laws and the Atomic Energy Act's national-security section. But it did not affect the constitutionality of capital punishment, currently under broad legal attack. In fact, the court implied that should Congress wish to maintain a death penalty provision in the Lindbergh law, nothing in last week's decision would prevent it from approving legislation enabling judge as well as jury to pass such a sentence. Any such provision would not affect Jackson and his pals, but they do not go free...
...more and larger class actions. For Eisen, the decision improved chances of regaining his money-almost. The biggest obstacle remaining is that federal rules provide that adequate notice must be given to other members of the class so that they can protect their interests or opt out if they wish...
...asked to join other members of the Faculty in signing the statement in support of those students who refuse cooperation with the Selective Service because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral, and as my name therefore did not appear in your edition of April 15, I wish to record it now. Daniel Seltzer Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Loeb Drama Center