Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your assessment of economic changes in the Soviet Union [Oct. 8], you write that "the Kremlin is admitting that Russia's economic engine is painfully sputtering." In confirmation, you advance the groundless argument about the Soviet Union's having lost its superiority over the U.S. in economic growth rates. There are indeed shortcomings in the Soviet economy. But that economy is developing more rapidly than envisaged by the Seven-Year Plan (1959-1965). The volume of industrial production increased 84% instead of 80% as planned. The average annual rate of industrial growth was 9.1%, more than double that...
Last week the argument reached the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles. For five hours, before 200 fascinated spectators and the court's seven justices, nine lawyers presented oral arguments in seven consolidated test cases concerned with one overriding question: Does Section 26 violate the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment-a clause that has been held to bar only private discrimination that is clearly involved with "state action...
...owner-operator of Radio Station WBOX in Bogalusa, La., Ralph Blumberg felt it was his civic duty to help explain the meaning of the new civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...
...very much moved by the argument that the Board may be fairer if a student is allowed to appear." Frederick C. Cabot '59, acting senior tutor in Winthrop House, said yesterday. He suggested, however, that few students would accept the opportunity to appear before the Board for questioning...
Booth also finds the general SDS character more prone to argument, debate, and the intellectual side of reform than to the dirty work of action and organization. The membership is so caught up in the spirit of the movement that it forgets its immediate objectives. To Paul Booth these questions are no longer academic; he plans to make SDS his vocation...