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...years top Government officials have knuckled under to the standard District of Columbia real estate covenants that prevent the sale or lease of many capital homes to Negroes or Jews. Standard rationalization: Supreme Court decisions have rendered the restrictions invalid anyway. Georgia-born Secretary of State Dean Rusk flatly refused to sign a restrictive clause attached to the sale of the house he wanted in exclusive Spring Valley. The clause was scratched...
...late U.S. District Court Judge William Clark, who anticipated Repeal by three years in a 1930 decision which held that the 18th Amendment was invalid because it flouted the will of the people. Appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Appeals Court in West Germany after the Nürnberg trials, Clark kept up a running feud with U.S. High Commissioner James Conant, in 1953 refused to leave the bench when notified of his dismissal, was finally dislodged when the State Department yanked his diplomatic passport. Judge Clark died...
Hector Berlioz was 35 at the time of the gift he thus described in his memoirs; Nicolò Paganini was 56, a cancer-ridden invalid no longer bewitching the public with his Guarnerius. But to Paganini, "Beethoven had at last a successor" in Berlioz, and the gift was an invitation to "write more divine compositions." Berlioz obliged with one of his most stunning works-the long "Dramatic Symphony," Romeo and Juliet. Last week the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Chorus under Guest Conductor Alfred Wallenstein gave the symphony one of its rare complete performances...
...resign. He is also a maverick priest. For 14 years, he has served as an official marriage counselor-first appointed by the territorial court, now by the new state's Supreme Court. As state official he cannot refuse to marry anyone legally free to marry. And however invalid they may be in the eyes of his church, he has performed ceremonies (though not Catholic ones) for both Protestants and divorced couples...
This action was part of a city-wide attempt by the Cambridge police to remove from the streets all automobiles and motorcycles bearing invalid 1960 license plates. The owners of the vehicles must pay for all towing charges and will be subject to possible fine...