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...Nothing counts but victories, no matter how achieved. I have searched long, diligently-and in vain-to find more than one individual who is outstanding both as an athlete and layman.* I have learned that to be a good sport in the concept of athletes and coaches one must 1) win at any cost. 2) cheat if necessary-but don't get caught, 3) feel that victory, not having fun. is important...
...realize was the essential infirmity of his "sure" votes. A handful of moderates in both parties-enough to swing the scales-still had serious doubts over the complex legal problem of jury trials in contempt cases. Massachusetts' Democrat Jack Kennedy had asked four Harvard law professors whether the concept of jury trials in criminal contempt cases was sound or not, received an unhelpful 2-2 reply...
...seeking to measure the meanings of the cold war, the U.S. and its allies have lined up many opposing concepts-freedom v. slavery, opportunity v. conformity, godliness v. ungodliness, and so on-to define and dramatize what the struggle is all about. Last week the global sweep of the news added up to another concept: namely, law and justice v. authoritarian rule, two 180° opposites ranged against each other across organized land masses of freedom and serfdom. In the reports out of Budapest, Panmunjom, Washington, the operative word was justice; the question welling up, the debate accumulating, the pressure...
...dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld security laws on the implied Holmesian basis of "clear and present danger." By comparison, Earl Warren's court has moved with drastic speed toward the implied concept of very little danger at all. Items...
...public health; after long illness; in Big Sur, Calif. Dr. Gregg joined the foundation in 1919, promoted generous grants to help finance the proving of sulfanilamide (first of the modern wonder drugs) and of penicillin, backed sex studies (including those of the late Alfred C. Kinsey), and pioneered the concept of mental illness as a disease needing specialized treatment...