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Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, by narrow 5-4 majorities, decided that Braden and Wilkinson had no reason not to answer. In majority opinions written by Associate Justice Potter Stewart (Justices Felix Frankfurter. John Marshall Harlan, Charles Whittaker and Tom Clark concurring), the court ruled that Congress could legally inquire about a witness' Communist ties if the question was related to some legislative purpose and if that purpose was made clear...
Helpful Nephew. With no experience and little interest in the mechanics of government, the Prime Minister relies heavily on her heavy-set nephew, Felix Dias Bandaranaike, 30, who is Minister of Finance and Parliamentary Secretary. Arrogant and bluntspoken, Nephew Felix strongly supports his aunt's school and language policies-even though he himself is a Christian and grew up speaking English (he is now being feverishly tutored in Singhalese...
...previous correction of the papal succession was in 1947, when the Yearbook's compiler decided that Athenian Pope St. Anacletus (circa 100-112) and Roman Pope St. Cletus (circa 78-90) were really the same man; therefore he dropped Anacletus. Confusions and discrepancies abound in ancient records. St. Felix, who died in 365, is erroneously listed as Pope Felix II (355-365); scholars still are not sure whether Dioscorus, who died in 530 and is listed as an antipope,* was not in fact legitimate, or whether Leo VIII (963-965), the candidate of Emperor Otto I who deposed...
...Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips...
...exhibit of Schiele's works. The show has been to Boston and Manhattan, will in time reach Pittsburgh and Minneapolis. Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles...