Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Specifically, the scholars note that seven out of 24 of Judge Carswell's opinions in civil rights cases were reversed by higher courts. These critics also cite Carswell's dismissal in 1960 of the application of a federal prisoner who asked to be released from custody because he had not had legal counsel. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Carswell, ruling that at least a hearing on the action should have been held. Yet later on when an identical case came before him, Carswell dismissed the application -again without a hearing. "In judging a judge," contends Pollak...
...never assaulted, though he says that several whites have "put a gun on me." He boasts today: "They cursed me and threatened me, but they never attacked me. Maybe my size scared 'em off." Wyche has been in court and in jail several times on charges stemming from civil rights activity. One case against him is still pending...
...dignity of all races when they are so willing to surrender their own by submitting to outrageous attacks from blacks. "During the trial of Black Pan ther Leader Huey Newton, many liberals wore buttons reading 'Honkies for Huey!' " he notes. "Can you imagine, if a white civil-rights leader were on trial, that blacks would go about with buttons reading 'Niggers...
Died. Robert Neville, 64, foreign correspondent and former TIME bureau chief; of heart disease; in Rome. Neville had that knack of turning up wherever big news was breaking. As a New York Herald Tribune reporter, he arrived in Spain just a day before the outbreak of civil war; as a TIME staffer, he was in Warsaw the day German troops crossed the Polish border. A wartime founder of the Mediterranean edition of Stars and Stripes, he returned to TIME in 1946, heading bureaus in New Delhi, Hong Kong and Rome before retiring...
...dispose of. Wall Streeters think that Pan American and Eastern are potential buyers. On the other hand, LTV's unsuccessful attempt in January to sell Braniff to Norton Simon Inc. may indicate a desire to find a buyer outside the airline industry and avoid possible objections from the Civil Aeronautics Board. Ling's sale of 82% of Okonite, which lost money last year, may be more difficult...