Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...political elections. This was true of Assistant Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, loser in a 1968 Senate race against Indiana's Birch Bayh. But Ruckelshaus proved to be a winner in the department, where he soon became one of its ablest young (38) voices of moderation. Last spring he persuaded Mitchell to permit a massive antiwar rally near the White House; he even got his boss to make speeches extolling peaceful protest. Now President Nixon has nominated Ruckelshaus for a crucial job: head of the new Environmental Protection Agency...
...suggestion that they had been ignoring a masterpiece in their very own building, British Museum officials hotly disputed Miss Love's identification. Modern experts, they noted, had concluded that the head was probably not of Aphrodite but of another figure in Greek mythology, Persephone, the goddess of spring. They also pointed out that the head was found by Sir Charles more than half a mile from the Temple of Aphrodite at the sanctuary of Persephone's mother, Demeter. That was not at all surprising, countered Miss Love; the Greeks were known to bury damaged statuary in sacred ground...
...Last spring the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill designed to bring a suit before the court challenging Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's right to wage undeclared war. By a 6-3 vote, the Justices brushed aside the effort of Massachusetts to bring the suit directly before them. The court majority apparently was swayed by Government arguments that Massachusetts lacked standing to bring suit on behalf of its citizens and that the issues involved too many potential political repercussions. In a passionate dissent, Justice William Douglas assailed the notion that the question was too political for the court to handle...
...years ago, Kent's black students and S.D.S. members staged a sit-in to protest recruiters from the Oakland. Calif., police department. White branded the action "intolerable." In the spring of 1969. he suspended officers of the S.D.S. chapter. When angry students responded by occupying a building, police made 58 arrests. Before any of the accused were tried, White suspended them without a hearing...
...city's edginess started last spring when about two dozen of Haverhill's 2,400 high school students tried to lead a demonstration against the Cambodian invasion and the Kent and Jackson State killings. They were beaten by members of the football team while police quietly watched. This fall, they put out an underground paper called the Mad Hatter. According to a local attorney, the school committee reacted to its four-letter words "as if they had come on the first copy of Das Kapital." The members banned the sheet from the school, calling it "filth" and "insanity...