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...newsman has the same duty as any other citizen to answer questions put to him by a grand jury, unless state law provides otherwise. That decision rejected New York Times Reporter Earl Caldwell's argument that he had a First Amendment right to refuse to testify before a grand jury investigating Black Panthers...
...Hamlet, the supporting players have no choice but to be supporting players, yet in this production one sometimes wonders if they are supporting Hamlet. As Claudius, James Earl Jones has evolved an eccentric interpretation, bubbling with some roguish interior humor and bursting into toothy, malicious glee. Given a riding crop, he might be the head of an old Hollywood studio rather than the ruler of a realm. An oddly placid Colleen Dewhurst makes Gertrude seem more the painted than the panting queen. Barnard Hughes' Polonius is the traditional chalk-dust didactician, but Kitty Winn's mad scene does...
...abandon it altogether. Says Psychologist David Elkind of the University of Rochester: "A lot of parents are being sold a bill of goods, but the Moores go to an extreme. If learning is geared to the pace of a child's development, it can be beneficial." Psychologist Earl Schaefer of the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health is also wary of saying that the home alone is the best environment. But, like the Moores, he argues, "until a child has developed language skills, interest and an ability to look, listen and absorb, he should...
Popkin has argued since September that he is not legally required to disclose his academic sources to a Boston grand jury investigating the leak of the Pentagon Papers to the press. A major point in his argument was a claim of academic privilege similar to Earl Caldwell's claim of journalistic privilege which a New York court ruling supported early this year...
...first printed joke," he recalls, "was in a gossip column. It read: 'Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices-over people's salaries.' " Dreadful by any standards, and thus ideal for the likes of Winchell, Ed Sullivan and Earl Wilson, whose columns ate up more material than the gypsy moth caterpillar. Allen placed a dozen lines at a time. Their frequency, if not their quality, caught the notice of a pressagent named Dave Alber, who signed up Woody, then 17, to write japes for other people's credit. "Every day after...