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...Frankfurter group upholds the will of the community, i.e., the laws passed by Congress in the interest of national security. Swinging between those two groups and casting the decisive vote -as he did on last week's 5-to-4 decisions curbing the Communists-is the newest Justice, Potter Stewart, 46. Says one of Washington's top trial lawyers: "You go up to argue before the court now, and you just talk to Stewart. You forget about the other Justices...
...again writing for the majority, held that the Sunday closing does not prohibit the free exercise of religion, although he did say that the law "operates so as to make the practice of [orthodox Jews'] religious beliefs more expensive." But the dissents were sharp. "The law," wrote Justice Potter Stewart, "compels an orthodox Jew to choose between his religious faith and his economic survival. That is a cruel choice. It is a choice which I think no state can constitutionally demand...
...David M. Landon '61 has been awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Award in Comparative Literature for an essay on Rimbaud...
...Marianne Sharke '62 won the Potter prize in Spanish Literature for her thesis, "The Sense of Tragedy in La Vida Es Sueno." David Haberly '63 received the second prize...
PLAY THE DEVIL: A HISTORY OF GAMBLING IN THE U.S. (475 pp.)-Henry Chafetz-Clarkson N. Potter...