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Foreiqn Leeway. Zemel v. Rusk produced three sharp dissenters (alt in the Aptheker majority). Justice William O. Douglas insisted that Americans should be allowed to visit Communist countries in order to understand them. The First Amendment, he said, "presupposes a mature people, not afraid of ideas." Justice Arthur Goldberg argued that Congress in 1926 merely tried to "centralize the issuance of passports," which were once wildly dispensed by U.S. mayors and even notaries. Justice Hugo Black called the 1926 law unconstitutional. Only Congress can make laws "restricting the liberty of our people," said Black...
...Bella and then announced the death penalty. For 48 hours after the trial, Ben Bella and his top leadership debated the case. There was strong sentiment against clemency, but everyone knew that execution would arouse greater resentment than ever among the anti-Ben Bella Berbers of Kabylia, where Alt Ahmed was a local hero...
...With $100,000 a year to spend, the commission wrote up plans to give historical dignity to a succession of battle anniversaries. But dignity all too often went down the drain. Practically from the outset, Civil War buffs wearing uniforms and carrying old muskets set out to re-enact alt the war's major battles. At Bull Run, in July 1961, 70,000 spectators cheered more than 2,000 men and boys as they replayed the battle, charging across the battlefield, shooting blanks, and falling off their horses. Casualties at 1961's Bull Run: 185 cases of heat...
From the Mountain. After that first, promising nighttime test, Keyes and his associates decided to try their diode light at longer range. They set up shop on the top of Mount Wachusett, a modest peak (alt. 2,006 ft.) 34 miles from Lincoln Lab. The first long-distance experiments were not successful, mostly because of hastily assembled equipment. After many months of work, an improved transmitter pointed at Lincoln Laboratory from Mount Wachusett. The tiny gallium arsenide diode, only 0.01 in. in diameter, was placed precisely at the focus of a 5-in. reflecting telescope that concentrated its infra...
...mighty blast echoed deep inside towering Mont Blanc (alt. 15.781 ft.) last week, and a thick wall of rock crumbled in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. A mile and a half down in the Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy...