Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.), whose last scheduled appearance here was cancelled when he became involved in a Harlem libel trial, has agreed again to address the Harvard Radcliffe Young Democrats. The speech will be given at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Lowell Lecture Hall, Powell's topic has not been set, but he is expected to comment on the civil-rights bill...
Last week sometime Restaurateur Dempsey brought suit for $3,000,000 in libel damages against Time Inc., publishers of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Said Dempsey in his complaint to the New York Supreme Court: "My gloves were not 'loaded' when I defeated Jess Willard. I won the championship fairly...
...sees, not try to dredge up the mind's messy thoughts through stream-of-consciousness. His own novels (Tarr, The Apes of God), while wildly funny in places, are all surface and little depth. So many characters resembled recognizable people that Lewis was always being threatened for libel...
...rule that libel on government has no place in our Constitution is to have real meaning," said Goldberg, "then libel on the official conduct of the governors likewise can have no place in our Constitution." He proposed granting critics total immunity, partly on the grounds that a public official has "equal if not greater access" to public forums, and can there readily neutralize any wrongs done to his reputation...
Justice Black went even farther. The Sullivan judgment, said he, offers "dramatic proof that state libel Taws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials. An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. I regret that the court has stopped short of this...