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...case has anyone ever been convicted under the section, and that was not a wiretap case.* Since the FBI does a lot of tapping, the Justice Department has not even tried to enforce Section 605 against wiretappers. Courts have had little occasion to decide whom Section 605 prohibits from doing what. Many lawyers accept the Justice Department's view that the law does not prohibit the bare act of wiretapping, provided the information so gained is not "divulged or published...
...their defense of election policy that club members point up the basic difference between final clubs and the secret societies at Yale. "It's not," one member says, "as if we take all the outstanding people in the College and then prohibit the Jewish men who have done well. Our candidates are usually selected with little regard to their activities here. We chose from a certain type and background and there just aren't very many Jewish students in that group to begin with." Echoes another club member, "To some extent we let the headmasters at certain prep schools...
University laws, like state and national laws, are not made to be broken. But when they prohibit a man from a share of greatness, discontent will naturally arise. Because the No Smoking rule in Memorial Hall technically makes it impossible for the freshmen to hold their Smoker there, an entire Harvard class may rise in righteous protest, its desire to be great for a night brutally dashed...
Last year he introduced a tough anti-cartel bill to prohibit associations formed to fix prices, but the bill was lobbied out of the Bundestag. Erhard, who is expected to introduce another bill soon, said last week that he would get even tougher in the future...
...suit to prohibit the Corporation from transferring books and plant specimens now in the Arnold Arboretum to quarters in the new Herbarium has been temporarily stymied...