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...Affirm that a state can use its police powers to prevent "sedition" against the Federal Government, thus erasing the 1956 opinion (TIME, April 16. 1956). written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. that freed Pennsylvania's top Communist Steve Nelson from prosecution under a state antisedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Plugs for the Loopholes | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...University of Illinois, Associate Professor Earl R. Leng has developed a dwarf corn that he hopes will some day end farmers' worries from windstorm damage. The short stalk is also ideal for automated pickers. By crossing his dwarf corn with teosinte, a Mexican grass, he has also developed a stalk with 20 small ears all along the stalk. If he can increase the size of the ears, the corn of 1965 may well resemble a hat tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start out across a gangster-infested desert in the direction of the nearest police station. Groans Actor Cobb: "It's gonna be a long, hot night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...After screening 40 football coaches for the job vacated by retiring Earl Blaik. Army went to its own practice field for his successor: Dale Hall. 34, for the past three seasons defensive backfield coach under Blaik. Hall, whose bespectacled, scholarly look belies his record as an all-round athlete, was an all-American basketball player at West Point, played halfback on Army teams of the Blanchard-Davis era, resigned his infantry commission to take up coaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...deluged with facts," said Earl J. Johnson, general news manager of U.P.I. "We know how many people went before the firing squads in Cuba, but this may not help an individual citizen make up his mind whether Cuba is better off under Castro than under Batista. We have got to find a way to bring in also a knowledge and an understanding of the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporting a Revolution | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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