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...happened to be called at the Sessions of the county of Chester (state of New York) declared that he did not believe in the existence of God or in the immortality of the soul. The judge refused to admit his evidence on the ground that the witness had destroyed beforehand all the confidence of the court in what he was about to say. The newspapers related the fact without any further comment...
...most cherished liberties are not so sacrosanct that governments cannot limit them in the public safety. But this will not be the case at New Lecture Hall. The only group prone to organize a protest in the past, the Boston NAACP, learned that printed warnings distributed to students beforehand seem to nip supposed prejudicial reaction in the bud. The NAACP, in fact, proposes to question the members of today's audience on their reaction, to see whether their hunch is right...
...part in constructing the bomb and handling the test explosion, Physicist Penney (TIME, Oct. 13) will be knighted. He first learned this on a news broadcast; Churchill had tried to reach him beforehand but the telephone operator refused to give out Dr. Penney's unlisted home telephone number even when told that the Prime Minister was calling...
...injured students was Thomas Plaut 4G, who received a badly gashed hand when shoved against Eisenhower's car. Plaut later charged there was "inadequate police protection" during the melee. "Eisenhower was 45 minutes late," Plaut said, "so there was plenty of time to clear the streets beforehand...
...smoke the same cigarettes, are married and each has one daughter, drive the same make & model car, and write and think alike so much that one can start a story which the other can finish without ever missing a phrase. "If we don't check with each other-beforehand," says Mustafa, "we find ourselves writing two editorials on the same event with only minor differences in wording...