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...Sorrells was convicted, and a circuit court affirmed the decision. In reversing the conviction, the Supreme Court said: "Congress could not have intended that its statutes were to be enforced by tempting innocent persons into violations. Such a gross abuse of authority for detecting and punishing crime deserves the severest condemnations...
...Even a cursory examination of the Clay-Liston bout [June 4] should convince the severest skeptic that vaudeville is not dead...
...Carlos Lacerda, 51, the handsome, mercurial politician now serving as governor of Guanabara state, which includes Rio. Brazilians know him as the man whose hounding attacks helped drive Dictator Getulio Vargas to suicide in 1954. Lacerda-who started as a Communist, then swung to the right-was the severest critic of Presidents Cafe Filho and Juscelino Kubitschek, played a major role in pushing the erratic Janio Quadros into resigning, and was a key civilian leader in the 1964 revolution that toppled Leftist Joao Goulart...
Flying Colors. Last week Gwyneth Jones was put to her severest test yet, stepping in for the ailing Leontyne Price to sing the demanding role of Leonora in the opening of Covent Garden's new production of II Trovatore. She passed with flying colors, though she was scored for occasionally giving too free a rein to her voice when spiraling into the upper registers. What thrilled the audiences was the raw power of her bright, heroic soprano, a tidal wave of a voice that all but drowned out Tenor Bruno Prevedi...
...undefeated Harvard soccer team plays at Dartmouth this afternoon in what will certainly be the team's severest test on the Ivy League season to date...