Word: libeling
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Byrnes called on the Soviet authorities to take steps to "reduce the danger to our scholars from journalistic libel...
...charge was also made by Pearson and Anderson, and is now being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service. Dodd, meanwhile, has brought a $2,000,000 libel suit against the columnists...
...widow's late husband, Yale Law School Professor Fowler V. Harper, charging four years ago in his National Review that Harper had given "aid and comfort" to Communist causes by lending his name to a Viet Nam protest petition. Harper died last year before his $500,000 libel suit against Buckley was resolved, but his widow pressed on. Finally, Buckley put the matter to rest by settling for $13,750 in New York State Supreme Court, thus clearing the decks for the next big hassle. Nobel Prizewinner Linus Pauling, labeled a "fellow traveler" by the Review, reported that...
Another Sacrifice. Silverman's ruling relied heavily on the New York Times v. Sullivan. In that 1964 case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that no "public official" could recover damages for libel unless he could prove "malice," that is, a "reckless disregard" of truth. Silverman extended the Supreme Court doctrine to cover Pauling, who is admittedly no public official, but who has become politically prominent as a result of his activities and public statements. "Dr. Pauling," wrote Silverman, "has added the prestige of his reputation to aid the causes in which he believes. I merely hold that...
...turned up at the University of Mississippi's integration riots in 1962; he had earned his share of notoriety by indoctrinating his troops with John Birch literature. But when he appeared on campus he was not acting in any official capacity, and he has won two big libel suits against the A.P. which sent out stories accusing him of helping to incite the riots...