Word: libelousness
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...Border. What the Herald got was an undomesticated ego with the habit of erecting insults on the very borderline of libel. When Jack Ricciardi, Boston's commissioner of public works, faced the prospect of appearing as a witness before a U.S. congressional committee (he was never summoned), all Frazier could talk about was Ricciardi's curly hair. "My own view," wrote Frazier, "is that if U.S. Representative John Blatnik has any feeling for beauty, he will first compliment Mr. Ricciardi on his barber. Then, if he has any investigative zeal, he will inquire how many strokes with...
Showing what seemed to many to be a confusion between freedom to speak and license to libel, Newton failed to act decisively. By the time he got around to removing the student editor for irresponsibility, it was too late to erase an impression that the president did not think the attack on Goldwater was anything to make a fuss about. On Election Day came the reckoning: riled-up voters elected two outspoken Newton-must-go Republicans to the university's board of regents. Last week, with the election results ringing in his ears, Newton announced his resignation, effective next...
...McDonough, an 18-year veteran, found that a Democratic voting advantage of some 47,000 in his new downtown Los Angeles district was too much to overcome: he lost by nearly 17,000 votes to Los Angeles Councilman Edward Royhal, a liberal who plugged medicare. In a swirl of libel suits, the bitter campaign of Republican Edgar Hiestand and Los Angeles Councilman Everett Burkhalter centered around Hiestand's membership in the John Birch Society. Hiestand lost. Another Bircher, smooth-talking Republican John Rousselot, also found the society plus a new district a politically fatal combination, succumbed to Assemblyman Ronald...
...political wisdom of the Congressional investigation of Hiss. This may sound like heresy to Mr. Von Salzen, but consider: assuming Hiss's guilt (and some reasonably intelligent people have their doubts about this), was it really in the best interests of this country to investigate him, provoking the libel and perjury suits? A government doesn't have to investigate or prosecute men who have committed sets against it which circumstances have proved were of little significance. In the years between Hiss's actions and the investigations, this country fought a major "hot" war, and began a cold war of similar...
Dilworth graduated with honors from Yale Law School, then built a highly successful practice as a Philadelphia trial lawyer. He specialized in libel law-and it is one of his great political assets that he knows precisely how far he can legally go in his assaults on his opponents. A Marine hero again in World War II, Dilworth returned to Philadelphia to lash out at the Republican corruption that had gripped the city for 63 years. From street corners he shouted the names of madams, gamblers, crooks-and the names of the cops and officials who protected them...