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After the court battle and an equally extensive speaking tour across the country, Worthy traveled to Cuba without a passport. He was eventually indicted and convicte under the McCarran Immigration Act for illegally reentering the country. His conviction was criticized as a direct restriction on the freedom of movement by the press...
...repeals the Smith Act (against advocating overthrow of the Government); the McCarran Act (requiring registration of "Communist front" organizations); and the Logan Act (forbidding any citizen to negotiate with a foreign government). The three measures have been spottily enforced in recent years...
...actually live through those post-war years to appreciate the awfulness of that era. The main organs of villainy were the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. And among their agents were Representatives J. Parnell Thomas and Richard M. Nixon, Senators Pat McCarran and James O. Eastland. Citizens by the carload were hauled before the committees; and, as a result, dozens of writers, performers and other professionals were blacklisted and for years could not secure work in films, theatre, radio, television and other fields...
...group owns Hughes Helicopters Div., the big manufacturer of military choppers. It controls Hughes Airwest, the regional airline, through still another outfit, the Hughes Air Corp. The group runs Hughes Aviation Services Div., which services and repairs planes and provides terminal facilities for charter aircraft at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport...
...industry sees it, premiums have not kept up with the inflation in costs. Even so, the way premium rates are set is coming under attack from officials in Washington, who apparently believe that the rates are too high. The Ford Administration will soon ask Congress to repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act. Since 1945 this act has permitted the states to regulate insurance companies, effectively exempting them from key aspects of federal antitrust laws...