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...comments and questions from the U.S. Supreme Court Justices last week were any guide, the Barron argument will be rebuffed. Chief Justice Warren Burger asked rhetorically: "If Tornillo goes out and hires a hall to castigate the Miami Herald, should the newspaper get half his time?" Justice Harry Blackmun remarked that the First Amendment was designed to protect press freedom, not to compel full debate on all issues: that is, a free press has a right to take stands that some people might consider unfair...
...offense with precision. In North Little Rock, Ark., a policeman had heard one man in a group say, "Well, there goes the big bad mother- cops." Twice more, with pungent variations, the hecklers piled profanity on the policeman. Finally he made arrests. Dissenter Harry Blackmun, joined by Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, dryly related those facts and found that the applicable law had been sufficiently narrowed. But the majority, though it filed no written opinion, sent the case back to the Arkansas Supreme Court. The inflammatory language used may indeed have been punishable, but the majority apparently was not satisfied...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew settled the question of who's queen of the Charles by trouncing Boston University and MIT by one and three-quarters lengths Saturday, capturing the first annual Burger King Invitational Women's Regatta Trophy...
...important question, however, is what sort of trend among fast food chains will this move create? "Burger King usually ends up following McDonald's," Litchfield said. "I'm hoping in this case Burger King will set the pace. If they copy us, it would be nice, but McDonald's is very individual and I really can't tell what they...
...course since Burger King has already gotten into collegiate crew first, other hamburger chains will have to move into different sports to avoid that old "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" syndrome. McDonald's owner Ray Kroc already is involved in pro sports, so why not get into collegiate as well...