Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...strictly academic character was explained to those who attended. Your reporter evidently came late, for I cannot believe that his offense was intentional. Unfortunately his story, though in itself a better-than-average newspaper account of a lecture, is a demonstration of the importance of the rule against such reporting...
...convictions. Much as society may want to put known criminals behind bars, the evidence in the Apalachin case plainly did not warrant conviction on the admittedly trumped-up count of conspiracy. The Appeals Court decision is a welcome indication that the judiciary is still ready to reassert the rule of law over the public's desire to "get" a group of people it regards as undesirable...
...before the last session, Pennsylvania's Liberal Senator Joe Clark shot off letters to Republicans and Democrats alike, urging them as the first order of business to think about his oft-proposed changes in Senate rules and procedures. One prime goal: to get a softening of the famous Rule 22, which requires a two-thirds vote of all Senate members to cut off filibusters. Other Clark proposals would speed the legislative processes and undercut the traditional power of seniority (which gives the South a death grip on committee chairmanships). Clark's newest proposal was to fill Democratic leadership...
...long run, the most important and enduring face of Africa might well prove to be that presented by Nigeria. Where so many of its neighbors have shaken off colonialism only to sink into strongman rule. Nigeria not only preaches but practices the dignity of the individual. And where such other islands of order in Africa as Liberia. Togo and the former French Congo lack the size and power to overbalance thrusting Ghana and Guinea (combined population: 8,665,000), the Federation of Nigeria stands a giant among Lilliputians; last October, when Nigeria's 40 million people got their independence...
...expect the members of the Ivy group to reach an agreement on the coach's role in recruiting in the foreseeable future. Although discussion is going on at several levels, he noted, there is no Ivy agreement on the point, and no college has broken a specific rule...