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...length of the law's arm in Long Beach. Chief Justice Earl Warren and Associate Justice Robert Jackson thought the whole record of the case should be sent to the Department of Justice, to determine whether the police had violated Irvine's civil rights. Wrote Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, with Associate Justice Harold Burton agreeing: "We have here . . . powerful and offensive control over Irvine's life . . . The police devised means to hear every word that was said in the Irvine household for more than a month . . . A sturdy, self-respecting democratic community should not put up with...
...began flying in Manhattan, a decision about tne future of Strike It Rich and all other giveaway shows was argued in Washington. Before the Supreme Court, the Federal Communications Commission urged that such shows should be banned from the air as violators of the federal anti-lottery laws. Justice Felix Frankfurter observed that, in his opinion, many people listened to these shows because of "vacuity of mind." The broadcasters dissented, and the Supreme Court took the entire matter under advisement...
event: a year ago he had felt honor-bound to withdraw from the championships when his teammate, Felix Endrich, was killed at Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen (TIME...
...here tomorrow, coast along at a conservative 1: 20, and we toast the name of Feierabend again." Next day, running almost as fast as he did in the first two heats, Feierabend won by a whopping total of almost six seconds, one of the biggest margins in bobsled history. Felix Feierabend was quietly happy: "We have seen death and we have known happiness like today." He was also rightfully proud: for the fifth time he had beaten the world's best bobsledders...
...this might all be an optical illusion. Some television screens tend to make tall men seem like even taller men. Ray Felix, basketball star for Baltimore, commented sadly, "I'm seven feet, but I say I'm six-eleven because I don't want people to think I'm a goon...