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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Headlines? But the fact was that the executive departments were busier than any other agencies, and quite properly, in the investigation and prosecution of Communist agents. It was the Department of Justice which staged the comic-opera search of the ship on which Stowaway Gerhart Eisler made his escape. It was also still holding his wife on Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation...
...fact, by its zeal in guarding civil rights the court has provoked some sardonic comments in the Department of Justice. Since 1947, the Department of Justice has not won a single search-and-seizure case; in reversing the Government, the court has opened jail doors wide to let known felons out. In the Trupiano case, G-men pinched a gang of bootleggers whom they had watched manufacturing alcohol for months. The court would not admit the alcohol as evidence because the G-men had no search warrant when they seized it. That much zeal for civil rights, Government agents felt...
...game will probably labor under a considerable handicap. In former years ebullient observers have wandered into the outfield in search of autographs and dandelions and have often slowed up the game. Needless to say, however, these fans are not ousted because you just don't eject a Harvard...
...fundamental reason is that for Harvard to take the course you recommend would be to repudiate the very essense of what Harvard stands for--the search for truth by a free and uncoerced body of students and teachers. And it would be to make a mockery of a long tradition of Harvard freedom for both its students and its faculties...
Such great telescopes as the 200-incher on Mt. Palomar see only tiny patches of sky. They need a more wide-eyed instrument to tell them where to look. Last week CalTech and the National Geographic Society announced a joint project to map the whole sky in search of interesting objects for big telescopes to study in detail. The society will supply the funds; CalTech, which runs Palomar Observatory, will supply the Schmidt telescope to do the mapping...