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Alan Austin '70, president, said that most of the lax councillors had glee club or athletic conflicts with Council meetings...
...suggested that the bar and the police should button their own lips-thus silencing the key source of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. But the press fears that even this will violate the "public's right to know" and foster "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from press scrutiny. Fueling the fuss is the fact that the U.S. Judicial Conference, which recommends rules for federal courts, will soon weigh possible crime-news curbs that might later be adopted by state courts...
Fateful Decision. Berlin in the 1920s was the place of coffee-house cynicism, lax morality, biting political satire and continual political turmoil. More interested in a degree than dialectics, Kiesinger at first stayed out of politics, but later joined the politically aware Catholic fraternity Askania. Fortunately, Askania was not all politics. At a fraternity ball, Kurt met the lovely 18-year-old daughter of one of the alumni. They danced together, and won the first prize in the dancing contest. On Christmas Eve 1932, Marie Luise Schneider and Kurt were married, set up a home near Berlin's Kurfürstendamm...
What U.S. editors widely fear is not so much news deferment as the probability that pretrial silence would foster the kind of "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from public scrutiny-and actually hurts many defendants. "If these strictures are adopted," says Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson, "I would hate to be a Negro in some Southern communities I know...
...preponderance of potentially prejudicial material" emanates from lawyers and law-enforcement agencies between arrest and trial. Wherever police and prosecutors have stopped talking, there has been a "significant decline" in overblown news stories-without any impairment of the vital role of the press in exposing crime and prodding lax law enforcement...