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When he himself was appointed to the court, Justice Jackson learned that his colleagues had mixed views of oral argument. Some thought it vital, others thought it largely a waste of time. Over the years, written briefs have become less and less brief; the justices have the opportunity-whether they use it or not -of reading a lawyer's whole story before he utters a word in court...
Whether the verbal sparring wins, loses or makes little impression, seldom does the court hear oral argument on so many big and brambly constitutional issues in one four-day session as it did last week...
...Supreme Court, which wasted little time agreeing that the question she raised was far from frivolous. In an unusual shortening of standard procedure, the court not only consented to review the case of Mary Hamilton v. Alabama; it made its decision at the same time. Without even hearing oral argument, and without handing down a written opinion, the court summarily reversed the contempt conviction. With Miss Mary Hamilton concurring, the court ruled in effect that calling Negroes by their first names is a form of racial discrimination...
...modest circulations. Future church historians may well date a profound change in Roman Catholic thinking on marriage from the current issue of a scholarly Belgian periodical called Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, There, the Rev. Louis Janssens, 56, a respected professor of moral theology at the University of Louvain, cautiously endorsed oral contraceptive pills as a legitimate means of family limitation for Catholic couples...
...church because it does not directly interfere with the procreative purpose of sex, whereas any barrier put between the sperm and the ovum frustrates the natural design of the act. Equally sinful is sterilization, and when Pius XII, speaking to a group of hematologists in 1958, outlawed the oral steroid pills (TIME, March 20) when used as contraceptives, it was on the ground that they temporarily sterilize the female reproductive system...