Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, nobody at Harvard Law School could ever doubt that Felix Frankfurter was really there, in Austin and Langdell, all the time. To start with, there were the portraits. In Langdell South, pictured in red robes, he looked oddly like a cardinal; in the Root Room, the Gardner Cox painting caught the very man. Etchings, photographs, a statue in the reading room--there was no escaping the likenesses...
Married. Ringo Starr, 24, noisiest (drums) Beatle of them all, and Maureen Cox, 18, a Liverpool hairdresser, his home-town girl for the last three years; in a civil ceremony; in London. When they put their heads together, what with his moptop and her pageboy, it was a trifle difficult to tell which was which...
Speaking for the Supreme Court, which viewed TV news films of the entire incident, Justice Arthur Goldberg said that "the students were wellbehaved throughout." What the police feared, he added, was white reaction; their paramount duty was to protect rather than attack the peaceful Negroes. Out went Cox's first conviction, by unanimous vote-along with Louisiana's "unconstitutionally vague" breach-of-the-peace statute...
...considering Cox's next case, Goldberg upheld the principle of Louisiana's obstruction-of-passage statute. "Governmental authorities have the duty and responsibility to keep their streets open and available for movement." Indeed, "we emphatically reject the notion urged by appellant" that the First Amendment protects street demonstrations just as much as pure speech. But the Louisiana statute contains no precise standards, and the way Baton Rouge police put it to work, said Goldberg, was "an unwarranted abridgment of appellant's freedom of speech and assembly." Out went the second conviction...
Poisoned Justice. In reversing Cox's third conviction, however, the Justices bitterly divided, 5 to 4, over a problem that first arose when U.S. Communists picketed trials of the U.S. party's lead ers. In 1949, Congress passed a law banning such demonstrations "in or near" all federal courthouses. Louisiana copied that Saw (as did Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) to deal with demonstrations near state courthouses. Goldberg praised Louisiana's law as "a precise, narrowly drawn regulatory statute which prohibits specific behavior." It does not violate the First Amendment, he said, because picketing is "subject to regulation, even...