Word: slanderous
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...suit that began it all-the $75,000 libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss-was quietly dropped in Baltimore's federal district court. To answer the suit, Chambers brought forth the famed "pumpkin papers." Result: Hiss's indictment and conviction for perjury. Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut last week dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which means that Hiss (now serving a five-year sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary) may never again file a similar action against Chambers...
...drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...
Many ministers and laymen apparently assume that the Freudians are in favor of sexual promiscuity, but "this assumption is false, and its reiteration is a lie, a slander, a canard, and a misrepresentation of facts . . . Psychoanalysts do not favor promiscuity, do not encourage it, do not attempt to relieve any patient's guilt about it, and, in short, are no more to be considered immoral inciters to crime than anyone else who is doing his best to diminish the errors of mankind. Quite the reverse, most of them spend hours and hours attempting to relieve patients from the compulsive...
...Chamber of Deputies, by an overwhelming vote, rejected the Deputies' resignation. The Red vilification apparatus clawed at the heretics: They were "traitors . . . automatically expelled." They were trying to smear "the patriotic and peace-defending line of the Communist Party in order to slander the Soviet Union." Party goons threatened Magnani and Cucchi on a train from Rome. Anti-Communist groups gleefully plastered up slogans: "Magnani and Cucchi Chose Italy...
...Santina, and forwarded prints of the negatives with a report to the provincial prefect. The prefect, an appointee of Italy's Christian Democratic government, ordered Ostilio and Santina reinstated until a formal hearing could be held. Ostilio and Santina filed a suit against the mayor for "defamation and slander...