Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...read Snow's novels could think him a dull dog, or a man who has not known conflict. But in the presence of the physical man, the "four square" appearance of a "solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature," the "solid, rational decorum," the interrogative "Mnunmm . . ." turning into a clearing of the throat, that knowledge wavers. Yet finally something comes from the man, more I think from the eyes than else-where, which restores conviction, and one knows again that accretions of fame and power have not calcified his curiosity or entombed his human sympathies...
Thus, Snow concluded, although Tizard and Blackett were right, the conflict in the secret politics of high conferences resulted in their defeat. "The minority view was not only defeated, but squashed, The atmosphere . . . had the faint, but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt. Tizard was actually called a defeatist...
...House subcommittee investigating the Lockheed Electra crash in Boston that took 62 lives, Braniff Airways Captain Trooper A. Shaw gave the ill-fated Electra a supreme accolade: "The Electra is the safest and most reliable airplane it has been my privilege to fly." His testimony seemed in direct conflict with the views of his own airline, which only the day before in Dallas had filed a $2,400,000 suit against Lockheed Aircraft, the Electra's maker, and General Motors, which supplied the plane's Allison turboprop engines, charging that the Electra was "negligently and carelessly planned, designed...
...appeal claimed that since in 1957 the legislature had changed the law under which Wyman was acting, Uphaus's conviction now had no force. But because the State Supreme Court had ruled that the change was only in wording, the Federal court had to have grounds of constitutional conflict to assert jurisdiction. It had denied itself such grounds when it declared in 1959 that governmental interest out-weighed the right of associational privacy in this kind of investigation...
...this appeal to the superior authority of his conscience, the values of his religious group, and the Bible, is just the one made by defenders of segregation. There is a fundamental conflict here. The irony of this case is that in employing civil disobedience and challenging the authority of the Supreme Court--but not in just criticizing it--Willard Uphaus might in the long run impair its development as the defender of civil rights and civil liberties...