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Unplowed Field. "Trial by television is foreign to our system," concluded Clark. The four dissenters were not so sure. Justice Potter Stewart pointed out that the court did not examine the issue of whether TV actually prejudiced Estes' jurors, and he warned against any blanket rule that might stifle free press if and when TV becomes less obtrusive. Justice John M. Harlan cast the fifth vote to make a majority, but he urged the court to "proceed step by step in this unplowed field." If the next TV appeal involves different facts, Harlan implied, he may well shift...
...Communists should not be employed as teachers" because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity. In a poll taken among Harvard Faculty members by the Crimson, this point of view was upheld, 218 to 108. Those critical of the commission report felt that a blanket rule should not be applied and that each individual should be judged separately according to his fitness to teach...
...question of "to what end" the contest is directed, I believe that there is a double purpose here. I do not think it can be defined in terms of a blanket "end Communism." There are situations in which it is not possible for the influence of the United States to be such... In Vietnam we have resources and we have made commitments. We are engaged there in a situation in which both the interests of the society to which we are committed and wider interests-both of the people of Southeast Asia and of the people of the United States...
...German banks, which now get blanket authorization to cast proxy votes for their shareholders at annual meeings, from now on will have to seek and follow voting instructions from each stockholder on each proposal...
...Global Blanket. As a means of muting Russia's planned propaganda barrage, European broadcasters called it "a master stroke." But the unprecedented transatlantic transmission of the master's voice and face also gave rise to international problems undreamed of a week ago. CBS's Walter Cronkite noted that the President had violated diplomatic protocol by addressing foreign peoples directly without first notifying their governments. A British Broadcasting Corp. official complained that he was forced to disrupt the normal evening schedule on short notice. Foreign chiefs of state, suddenly alert to the prestige potential of broadcasting directly...