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...First Amendment guarantee of a free press has never been interpreted by the Supreme Court the way some journalists would like to have it-a blanket protection against any judicial inquiry into a newsman's activity, sources and unpublished materials. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last November that New York Times Reporter Earl Caldwell was right in refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the Black Panthers because the jury was on a "fishing expedition"; for Caldwell to talk, the court held, would have turned him into an investigative agent for the Government. Though an important...
...campers, yachtsmen, private-airplane pilots and snowmobilers, a company named Relevant Products Inc. of Louisville has come up with the Safe-T-Cell, a compact 2-lb. super-first-aid kit. Crammed into a sturdy polyethylene cylinder are tourniquets, bandages, antiseptics, adhesive tape, aspirin, rescue blanket, waterproof matches, nylon cord, a compass and even chocolate. Marine, aircraft and camper versions sell for $13.95; a more elaborate marine model, which also contains a mouth-to-mouth resuscitator, goes...
...Blanket Surveillance. Last year John O'Brien, a former Army intelligence agent, disclosed that the Army had spied on a number of U.S. politicians, including Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, now a U.S. Senator. Ervin decided that the time had come for his subcommittee to act. In four weeks of hearings, he and his colleagues, including Liberal Democrats Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh and John Tunney, heard 45 witnesses. Among them...
...Catholic homes. Besides, they are predominantly Protestant. The three fusiliers were probably lured away from Kellys by their assassins, posing as newfound drinking chums. On the city's outskirts, a few residents heard gunfire, then saw a red Mini car, carrying men whose heads were covered by a blanket, speeding away from the area...
...Vernon plant is one of the first of between 50 and 100 atomic reactors with which the AEC plans to blanket the-Northeast before the year 2000, and it raises some important questions about the Nuclear Nirvana envisioned for America by utilities, the AEC and electricity fiends in general...