Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster have a communication problem in Sorry, Wrong Number...
Close Watch. Still, though they may not have observed protocol-or in some cases the Constitution-it is not so easy to contend that the Chief Executives were always wrong. In the summer of 1940, for instance, President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that American destroyers might prove decisive in defeating a German invasion of Britain; a British defeat would have brought the U.S. into the gravest peril. Yet Congress probably would not have approved the transaction for weeks or months, if at all. Congress is oftentimes hostage to parochial interests, while the President has the national constituency...
Freeing Power. Black theology views the possibility of violence calmly. "As I look at the American scene," says Bishop Johnson, "I see no possible way to change the structures of injustice except through violence. I hope my vision is wrong." The only Roman Catholic present at the meeting, Father Lawrence Lucas of Saint Joseph's Church in Harlem, draws on the "just war" tradition. "Deliberate, planned violence can be morally justified, and violence can play a role in effecting social change," he says...
...Bolsheviki," Walter Winchell a "gents-room journalist," and Henry A. Wallace a "slobbering snerd." His most abiding hatred was for the Roosevelts. Berating F.D.R. and his family in column after column, he termed the President a "feebleminded fiihrer" and found it "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara hit the wrong man when he shot at Roosevelt in Miami." He waged a vendetta against Eleanor Roosevelt, whom he dismissed as "La Boca Grande" (the big mouth). Pegler once defended such tactics with a confession: "My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively than my friendships...
...number of antitrust experts, others argue that if all mergers among the 200 biggest companies are forbidden, inefficient managements in those companies will be freed from any fear of takeover. There is also something disquieting about the idea of the Government attacking companies not because they have done anything wrong but because some day they might. A doctrine that would allow the Government to flail at big mergers also includes temptations for arbitrary action. Some businessmen, for example, have suggested that it is not entirely coincidence that one primary target of the trustbusters is James Ling, the conglomerate chief...