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...minority opinion, written by Justice Byron White, took blistering exception. "The Communist Party's illegal purpose and its domination by foreign power have already been adjudicated, both administratively and judicially," snapped White. If a Communist "must be apprehended in the act of calling one political strike in one act of disloyalty before steps can be taken to exclude him from office, there is little or nothing left of the preventive or prophylactic function" of the provision...
...Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 62, board chairman of the Fred Harvey restaurant chain (60 restaurants, nine hotels, 35 retail shops) originally founded by his grandfather in a Topeka train station in 1876 to make the travelers' lot a bit happier, in those early days, by giving them good food served by pretty waitresses in prim uniforms, later immortalized by Judy Garland's 1946 Harvey Girls; of cancer; in Chicago...
...MENTON (Aug. 1-25), on the French Riviera, mixes chamber music with the murmur of the sea. Performances are held in the centuries-old square of St. Michel's Church, which affords a panoramic view of the surrounding lemon groves and the port. Highlights include concerts by Pianists Byron Janis and Van Cliburn and a Schubert recital by Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf...
...most exciting piece in the issue is Byron Stookey's illuminating essay on the new branch of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Stookey, former head of the Freshmen Seminar program and now assistant to the Chancellor of Santa Cruz, outlines the planning of a university community which will be unique in this country. Explaining the innovation at California, he implicitly scores Harvard at almost every turn...
North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy sent Wallace a telegram criticizing the "white conscience" of Alabama. Pianist Byron Janis protested by canceling a scheduled concert recital in Mobile. In city after city, civil rights groups mounted protest demonstrations. In Selma, the Negroes stood in nightlong vigils under the wary eyes of police. Selma's Negroes and a growing number of white ministers-and even several white Roman Catholic nuns from St. Louis-demonstrated, but they were kept in check, without resort to passion or clubs, by Public Safety Director Baker...