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...unjustness with which the state investigated Uphaus is manifest. After the legislature made Wyman a one-man committee to inquire into subversion in 1953, the Attorney-General demanded that the New Haven minister hand over the names of guests who visited the summer camp where he directed conferences on peace. Uphaus refused, and in 1956 the state Superior Court cited him for civil contempt by a close 3-2 decision, with a minority which objected that "on a record such as this so slim a semblance of pertinency is not enough to justify inquisition violative of the First Amendment...
...earned the distinction of Ivy back of the week. He ran the ball seven times for 83 yards and completed six out of seven passes for 119 yards and a grand total of 202 yards. He threw three touchdown passes and one extra-points pass, and ran for another TD for 26 points-not a bad one-man performance...
Thus win, lose, or draw in Algeria, the era of one-man rule in France seems to be approaching its conclusion...
...would like to express to you my pleasure in the recent article in TIME on my current one-man exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. The information given to your writer and researcher has been sensitively handled and you have my thanks and congratulations. In the four-hour period one Sunday, almost three thousand people attended the exhibition, and I am told that this equals the attendance at Lenin's tomb in Moscow...
...Congress with another freshman, one John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kennedy loped along in anonymity; Congressman Nixon hit the nation's front pages during his very first term. As a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, he was present when ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss, sometime high State Department official, had been a Communist spy during the 1930s. Hiss's denials convinced the other committee members-but his legalistic evasions caught the alert ear of law-trained Richard Nixon. Nixon doggedly pursued the investigation as virtually a one-man committee. Many an ardent Nixon...