Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, a CIA run entirely by soldiers and policemen? In 1965 Robert Wood, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, considered the problem that such involvement means for intellectuals: "Given the uncertainties of actual influence possessed, its effectiveness and appropriateness, and the welter of motivations that compel the intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented." Now that he is back in Cambridge after three years as Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Wood says: "It was a sobering but not a corrupting experience. The alternative...
...increase military security. Because security is based upon moral and economic, as well as purely military strength, a point can be reached at which additional funds for arms, far from bolstering security, weaken it." In his farewell address in 1961, he argued : "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and libertv may prosper together...
...States and Russia are on the verge of opening talks on curtailing he weapons race, and open-ended development of ABM's would upset the delicate balance of terror necessary for stability between the two nations. What Secretary McNamara most feared might very well happen: the ABM system could compel the Russians to respond...
...Judge Beer at least, the argument made eminent sense. He affirmed the judges' right to sue and also gave them everything that they had asked for. The plaintiffs won a writ of mandamus that will compel the county to provide for leven more probation officers, eight more clerks, and one judicial assistant at a combined cost in salaries of at least $193,000 a year. The order may become a major precedent. For judges elsewhere may decide that the way to get more staff is to challenge from the other side of the bench...
Hemophilic Heart. Among other things, says Friendly, the Fifth was designed to prevent a defendant from "being dragged, kicking and screaming, to the witness stand." But Friendly does not see how the Supreme Court can interpret it as meaning the state cannot compel a person to produce documents and records relevant to his case. "It takes a heart more hemophilic than mine," says he, "to find cruelty" in a subpoena to require racketeers to produce their books. Yet the Supreme Court has barred just such an act under the self-incrimination clause...