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...prosecutor. Keyhole pecking has been limited by the number of FBI agents who could be posted at suspected keyholes. But machines could be rigged to record every innocent conversation passing through every telephone exchange in the country. Such mass caves-dropping would have proportions great enough to render the freedom from search without a warrant, guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment, almost meaningless. And reproduction of these conversations in court can be regarded as a violation of the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against forcing a defendant to testify against himself...
...after study of the Graham-Wynder findings: "The underlying medical question is settled. But as so often happens, we now have a new problem with social implications-how to organize and pay for the research which will show us how to remove the mouse-cancer agent from tobacco, or render it inert, and also to track down the many other factors which may be contributing to the increase in lung cancer...
...stoned before the close of a certain Day of Atonement which fell on a Sabbath... In the staintes signed by the communities of Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public duty, in the accomplishment of which everyone was required to render his utmost assistance... [And later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer is said to have been sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of a Jewish court, so also as the last decades...
...that college officials, that group in education most prone to compromise academic freedom in the past, will stand behind them. Our universities have a responsibility to the public and themselves to expel teachers who have broken the law, or whose totalitarian beliefs so twist their teaching and research to render them unfit for their profession. But they have an equal responsibility to make sure the implication of unfitness that springs from use of the Fifth Amendment, membership in subversive groups, or any other indirect evidence is backed up by fact before any teacher is disciplined. In this way, mutual trust...
...night in 1947, a delegation from the Harvard Boots and Wings Club, an exclusive organization open only to veteran parachutists, was wending its way back to the Houses from Cronin's. Pausing in front of the Kirkland Master's residence, and apropos of nothing, the men began to render "Noel" with great spirit. Mason Hammond, the Master of Kirkland, came to his bedroom window and made it clear that the serenade was not welcome. Since that time, few months have passed without the evening concert being repeated, with a three-year turnover in the choir but always the same refrain...