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...significance, the new decision was not likely to pack Georgia jury boxes with Negroes. Almost no one down South wants them there, not even some Negro defendants, who seem to suspect that they will surely get unduly harsh justice from Negro jurors leaning over backward to suppress a natural sympathy for their race. Nor does the decision go so far as to order jury service for Negroes. "The test," says Presiding Appeals Court Judge Horace E. Nichols, "is not whether any Negroes are actually on a jury. It is whether they are on the jury panel, available for jury duty...
Because of the structural and magical peculiarities, the audience is asked to use uncommon imagination in the final two acts. But if it must accept the passage of sixteen years in little more than sixteen lines and suppress disbelief at a statue become woman, in the three acts (until the first intermission), it needs only to be carried along by one of the best casts assembled at the Loeb this year...
...Answers are not easy. Although the First and 14th Amendments guarantee freedom of speech and press, the Supreme Court has cast obscenity outside these rights, just as it does incitement to violence or publication of military secrets. But one trouble is that many cities and states have tried to suppress smut even before it reaches the public. This the court calls "prior restraint," meaning that a state invades freedom of expression if it bans obscenity on such vague grounds as "objectionable" before proving its case in a legal hearing...
...judicial proceedings." It was under that statute that Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy took military action at Little Rock in 1957 and the University of Mississippi in 1962. - Section 333 of Title 10 further empowers the President to use "any other means"-not only troops, but also federal marshals-"to suppress, in a state, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy" whenever such an event denies equal protection to any class of citizens, or "obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." Obviously pertinent: Mississippi's denial...
...Without citing any evidence, Author Possony argues that the "evidence indicates" Lenin's grandfather "was born a Jew." Fischer places the responsibility where it belongs, on the Soviet government. "The records were undoubtedly available in Russia's bulging archives," he writes, "but the Bolsheviks saw fit to suppress them. This feeds the suspicion that there is something to conceal...