Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's decisions sharply narrowed the scope of Nelson. The case was brought before the Supreme Court by one Willard C.Uphaus, head of a pacifist, left-wing organization called World Fellowship, Inc., who had refused to produce a list of guests at a fellowship summer camp when asked for it by New Hampshire's Attorney General during an investigation authorized by the state legislature. Ordered by state courts to hand over the list or go to jail, Uphaus appealed, relying heavily on Nelson...
...wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority (Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart), the constitutional protections of privacy were designed to prevent officials from seizing evidence to be used against the householder in a criminal case without due process of law. "Giving the fullest scope to this constitutional right to privacy, its protection cannot be here invoked . . . No evidence for criminal prosecution is sought to be seized . . . Here was no midnight knock on the door but an orderly visit in the middle of the afternoon . . . Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power...
Health fees would not rise under terms of the proposal, now under study by insurance firms. All students, however, would receive insurance protection for prolonged illness, with coverage beyond the scope of the present plan...
...foreign policy." Moreover, it is unfortunate that the copy deadline is so early, for the editors might now wish to revise their some-what pessimistic comments on the vigor of House drama and would surely wish to mention Fidel Castro's visit alongside that of Ambassador Menshikov. Yet the scope of 323 is commendable, and in most cases the writing of the articles is satisfactory and occasionally enlightening...
...Western scholar last week: "As pious Moslems, al-Azhar men don't drink, smoke or go out with loose women. And they are content with low pay." Says Rector Chaltout: "For ten centuries, al-Azhar has interpreted the Koran and taught its language. Now it will widen the Scope and knowledge of its graduates so that they may paint a true picture of Islam wherever they travel...