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...subcommittee had good reason to suspect that Braden and Wilkinson were Communists, wrote Justice Stewart, and reasonable grounds for trying to find out whether they were members of the Communist propaganda apparatus. The court carefully avoided any blanket endorsement of committee investigations (noted Stewart in a rare aside: "These opinions do not imply any personal views as to the wisdom or unwisdom of the creation or continuance of the committee"), but it rejected the argument that Wilkinson and Braden were being persecuted merely for attacking the committee. Nor did their attacks make them immune from questioning as Communist suspects...
...enthusiastic nihilism; the Baron is the only truly faithful mortal of the bunch; and the Angel, determined but confused, finally tumbles into the water instead of soaring into the Christian empyrean. Mr. Cole tries to make his characters palatable by casting a thin gauze of mockery over the entire apparatus. This technique, though well handled, fails to disguise the essential fatuity of his conception, for though the play is witty in spots it could never hold an audience past the first couple of pages. Mr. Cole presumes that the reader (or hearer) is interested in the results of his philosophical...
Limits of Liberty. In theory, John Kennedy's growing apparatus of power rests upon his own historical study of the nation's active political leaders-a study confirmed during a recent reading of Presidential Power, by Columbia University's Professor Neustadt (who was added permanently to the Kennedy staff last week as an adviser on the structure and operations of Government). In practice, it rests on the President's determination to get things done-and his belief that in politics, power is the prime, even the only, mover of events...
...speed electrochemical reactions. Hyden's team devised an ingenious way to find out what happens to nerve cells when they receive a stimulus. The scientists spun rabbits on a centrifuge, just fast enough to make them dizzy and cause the cells in the acoustic nerve and the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear (a center of balance) to stimulate the brain with a sense of distress. Then they painlessly killed the animals and analyzed the nerve cells...
Hangover in the Army. The dude reader first notes a certain irony in the circumstance that the solemn and formidable apparatus of U.S. scholarship has been turned loose on a man who was a great liar in the Mark Twain style and was always surprised if some pedant tried to ride herd on his maverick facts. Stratfordians have unearthed a great many variants- on the spelling of Shakespeare's name; Buffalo Bill's biographer rustles up 14: Coady, Cody, McCoady, etc., and Buffalo Bill probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author...