Word: circuited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to have few prospects then. He sold magazines from door to door. After a stint in the Army Air Force, he won a job as an assistant attorney general, then as a state legislator, always feisty, eager to speak his piece. Elected a circuit judge in 1953, he told the courthouse boys that he was going to run for Governor. Wallace was easily defeated in the Democratic runoff. His own judgment of the race was that he had been "out-segged" by his victorious rival, John Patterson. It would not happen again...
...drawn up to screen program applicants. A white male applicant named Brian Weber sued for admission to the program claiming he had more seniority than many of the minority members accepted. Weber won his case in a 2-to-1 decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The judges denied a petition from Kaiser for a rehearing after confidentially advising Justice Department attorneys in Washington that they wanted to wait for the Bakke decision...
...Roddy at their favorite retreat, the Caribbean island of Mustique. The royal family was due for a salary increase on Parliament's "civil list," and critics, both royalist and republican, asked sharply whether Margaret was pulling her princessly weight. Since then Margaret has been unusually visible on the royal circuit...
WITH VIETNAM a rapidly fading memory, with former anti-draft protesters such as the Berrigan brothers safely ensconced on the lecture circuit, with McGovern giving way to Carter and, just possibly, to Jerry Brown, opposition to the draft and to what it represents is no longer such an automatic reflex. The knee-jerk liberals no longer twitch when reminded of Chicago and Kent State, of the cries of a generation that would not go to war, a generation that could not support a system that it believed reaped extra dollars out of every platoon that charged into battle. Instead...
...University may not be able to recognize the student assembly ratified last month, because the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in North Carolina recently ruled illegal a student government clause similar to the Harvard constitutional convention's minority clause, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday...