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...part, the ICC was plainly worried. The commission has been trying to handle rail mergers one by one for the sake of speed and economy and Justice William Brennan, siding with the majority, wrote a strong opinion stating that it ought to go back to the old, laborious system of considering all regional mergers together. As for the railroads involved, they were, in the words of Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders, "disappointed but not disheartened." Though the Supreme Court spoke of a "very short delay," the complications it unraveled last week may well keep the merger hanging for two or three...
PROJECT 20 (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "End of the Trail," the last stand of the Great Plains Indians against the white man's encroaching civilization in the 1870s. Spliced together from historic photographs and current films of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana. Walter Brennan does the narration...
...loyalty oath in order to test the law. Another university employee also refused the oath. Their points were that "pertinent constitutional doctrines have since rejected the premises upon which" the earlier conclusion rested and that the law is unconstitutionally vague. Pursuing the first point for the majority, Justice William Brennan noted that, though New York recently abolished the oath requirement of the Feinberg Law, it still bars from public-school employment members of any organization that advocates the violent overthrow of the Government. Even if the employee does not share the advocacy, he must still be fired under Feinberg, said...
Regulatory Maze. Moreover, the law would also remove from school employ anyone guilty of "treasonable or seditious" utterances or acts. Here, said Justice Brennan, "the difficulty centers upon the meaning of 'seditious.' " Constructing a reductio ad absurdum, he traced how the law might conceivably include even a teacher who publicly displayed the Communist Manifesto by merely carrying a copy of it on the street. "It is no answer," added Brennan, "to say that the statute would not be applied in such a case." The law is plagued by such vagueness, he concluded, and constitutes a "regulatory maze...
...state will feel safe in making loyalty requirements. "The majority has swept away one of our most precious rights- the right of self-preservation," he concluded. The heated argument even continued orally when the Justices delivered their opinions. "Of course our decision today does no such thing," rebutted Brennan, adding that the minority's dissent had indulged "in richly colored and impassioned hyperbole." Replied Clark tartly: "It must have hurt...