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When the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund sought a federal injunction against such raids, U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen was loath to interpose federal power and order Baltimore police to get judge-signed search warrants. He was impressed by a new police order requiring raiders to have "probable cause to believe the accused person to be on the premises to be searched," and he denied the request for an injunction...
After its inglorious handling of the Bobby Baker scandal, the U.S. Senate is understandably loath to inquire into yet another case involving its mores and members. Last week, nonetheless, the world's most exclusive club was faced with two impending investigations. The subject of inquiry this time was no expendable retainer but one of the Senate's own: Connecticut Democrat Thomas Joseph Dodd...
...would make rock impossible. Members consistently oppose buying new equipment which would make broadcasting easier without improving the sound. They feel that it reduces the scope of the work, and cuts down the challenge. There is a certain camaraderie inspired by working with backward equipment that they are understandably loath to part with...
...chief weakness lies in the nationalized 53% of Austrian industry: steel, aluminum, oil, chemicals, leather, paper and lumber, plus the deficit-burdened state railway. Hobbled by price control, high taxes to finance lavish welfare programs and a chronic lack of capital, both nationalized and private industry have been loath to expand into new product lines or even to modernize plants rebuilt after World War II with $1 billion of Marshall Plan aid. On top of that, much of private industry is fragmented into pint-sized firms-25% employ no more than 20 persons. Predictably, they turn out goods in small...
...Look Out!" All the same, having signed a $6 billion revenue-raising measure only last week, the President is understandably loath to request further tax increases for a while. The bill, raising excise taxes on autos and phone calls and speeding up corporate and individual income tax payments, was signed by Johnson at 8:12 one evening, a scant three hours after Congress had passed it, thus assuring the Government an extra $1,000,000 in revenue.-"That more than makes up for the lights we are using," he quipped...