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...refused to answer questions in court proceedings and congressional hearings, pleading the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. The Fifth Amendment provides that no person may be required to give testimony against himself, and stems from the English common-law prohibition against torturing or threatening witnesses to compel testimony. In this sense, few Americans want the Fifth Amendment abolished...
...Nashville, Tenn., the desegregation effort took a reverse twist. Three children of white professors at Fisk University were refused admission to the Pearl elementary school (for Negroes). A Negro city councilman, Alexander Looby, promptly announced that he would file suit to compel the school board to admit them...
Unable to command enthusiasm, the Communist compel obedience. The hapless Chinese cannot speak his resentment publicly or before his child, who has been taught to spy on him, or in front of a friend, who may be an informer. He can display his disapproval only by sullen compliance or by loafing on the job. The opposition is real but unorganized: a silent resistance that shows up not in guerrilla successes but in production failures...
Dodge has been trying since last fall to compel Fingold to change his decision not to bring suit against the University. Fingold acted on an opinion prepared for him by Harris Booras, State Special Assistant for Trusts. Booras advised Fingold that the Corporation's plan to remove material from the Arboretum does not violate the terms of the Arnold trust...
...importance equal to the recently passed wire-tap law in bringing our crime fighting up to date, Lumbard said, is a statute allowing grand juries to compel witnesses to divulge all information that is asked for. He explained that while such a law would mean witnesses could no longer decline to answer on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment, a witness would be granted immunity on any answer that might incriminate...