Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unauthenticated summaries of interviews with witnesses." Under the Administration bill, trial judges would first screen the files for their relevancy before making them available to the defense. The Senate subcommittee, making clear that its haste stemmed from a "grave emergency in law enforcement," approved the bill-in a closed-door session of precisely three minutes. ¶ In a 5-to-3 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the right of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deny passports to Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl for refusing to sign...
...Amendment Roth case. Wrote Harlan: "The danger is perhaps not great if the people of one state, through their legislature, decide that Lady Chatterley's Lover goes so far beyond the acceptable standards of candor that it will be deemed offensive and non-sellable, for the state next door is still free to make its own choice. At least we do not have one uniform standard. But the dangers to free thought and expression are truly great if the Federal Government imposes a blanket ban over the nation on such a book...
...earned Melchior something less than an Equity minimum. As the tenor untied himself, grabbed a deer rifle and hustled out the door, his captor audience skedaddled back out the gate, taking with it $140,000 in boodle (jewelry and cash). Police bag by week's end: two of the four badmen, all but about $40,000 of their loot...
...across thousands of farms from coast to coast, often separating a farmer's house from his fields and forcing him to detour for miles to get from one side of his land to the other. Last week at Encino, Calif., a superhighway bulldozed its way past the front door of Hollywood Actor Edward Everett Horton, burying his tennis court, swimming pool and formal garden. Dozens of California swimming pools, their bottoms knocked out to prevent water from collecting, have been buried far beneath the new roads, a possible puzzle for future archaeologists. A classic case of inconvenience occurred when...
...square concrete base, with four wings cantilevered out into space. Inside are three bedrooms, a living room, family room, dining space, kitchen and two baths, with many fixtures molded into the walls and electronic aids galore ranging from a TV-type camera to see who is at the front door to pushbuttons to adjust the lavatory to a child's height. Costing $1,000,000 to plan and build, the house so far is a showcase, the company said, and no plans have yet been made to put it in production. But it estimates the house could be mass...