Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Brennan. Replied Louisville's uncomfortable assistant city attorney: "I presume it is some sort of dancing that uses a system of shuffling.") They concluded that no evidence of loitering or disorderly conduct existed. Wrote Justice Hugo L. Black for the court: "Although the fines are small, the due-process questions presented are substantial...
...speed with which Australia is coming of age astonishes Australians themselves and bemuses even the ruddy, self-assured man who has presided over the process. "When I was a boy," says Prime Minister the Right Honorable Robert Menzies, "there was a distinctly colonial flavor to Australia. Now we are developing an outlook peculiar to Australia. We are becoming more significant...
...perhaps 25 years in which to justify our exclusive possession of this continent," Laborite Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell revived the slogan, "Populate or Perish." He won support for a costly immigration program that has brought in an average of more than 100,000 "New Australians" a year. In the process, Australia deliberately modified its old boast of being "more purely...
...antiaircraft missile. Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker has found it to be mostly worse: every time a Bomarc B failed to soar from its test pad at Cape Canaveral, Canada's Liberal and CCF (socialist) Opposition parties gleefully assaulted the Bomarc as a dying bird. In the process they winged Tory plans to rely on two Canadian Bomarc bases and nine aging squadrons of CF-100 interceptors as the country's only home defense against the bomber threat...
...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. The author, an ex-Communist, writes an absorbing memoir of his misadventures as a revolutionary, and in the process throws much light on 20th century history...