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Rights & Freedoms. In waging its propaganda battles, the Arab-Asian bloc sets great legal store by Article 55 in the U.N. Charter, which provides that the U.N. "shall promote observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion," and on Article 56, in which "all members pledge themselves" to cooperate with the U.N. to achieve these purposes. But, said South Africa's Du Plessis, the very committee which drew up these provisions stipulated in the records that Article 55 gives the U.N. no right to interfere in domestic affairs...
...bootlegging increased again in Holmes County, Editor Smith repeatedly attacked Sheriff Richard F. Byrd. Then, on the Fourth of July weekend last year, the sheriff drove up to a group of Negroes gathered about a small country store at Tehula. He asked one of them, Henry Randle, 27, what he meant by "whooping." The Negro denied any whooping, witnesses reported, and the sheriff cursed and struck him. When Randle raised his arm to ward off the blows, the sheriff drew his pistol and yelled, "Get going!" As Randle ran off, Sheriff Byrd reportedly shot him in the thigh...
...manager of a package store on Chapel St. said he had no knowledge of the enforcement, but said if it were put into effect, he would expect a rise in sales...
Doctor's Orders. In Nashville, asked by the judge why he passed three bad checks in a local store, W. P. Rowland explained that he had been bothered by a back ailment, was restricted to light work...
...creation of verse were once very much public property. Two hundred years ago people lived in a handicraft culture, and Muir felt that artisans who could produce a fine chair would be more likely to appreciate a well constructed poem than would the owner of a large furniture store...