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Citing that the restrictions on the beliefs of immigrants are the first symptom of vanishing freedom, he traced the attack on individual liberties through the Smith Act, the McCarran Internal Security Act, and the government security program...
...vicious newspaper articles were a symptom of the worsening relations, now approaching a postwar low, between U.S. companies and the Japanese government. Though U.S. industry has poured more than $229 million into Japan since the war, some 70 applications for $34 million in new investments are gathering dust in the files of Japan's powerful Foreign In vestment Council. Fortnight ago, FOAdministrator Harold Stassen announced a plan to guarantee future U.S. investments in Japan. Four companies applied for such guarantee, but none was approved by Japan, and none is likely to be. Reason: the government regards...
...Easy Out. Siding with the psychiatrists, the court reasoned: "As an exclusive criterion the right-wrong test is inadequate in that a) it does not take sufficient account of psychic realities and scientific knowledge, and b) it is based upon one symptom and so cannot validly be applied in all circumstances . . . The 'irresistible impulse' test is also inadequate, in that it gives no recognition to mental illnesses characterized by brooding and reflection ... A broader test should be adopted." The proposed test, already known as the "Durham Rule": a jury must decide 1) whether an accused was suffering from...
...second major symptom about today's youth, according to Lindner, lies in "the abandonment of that solitude which was at once the trademark of adolescence and the source of its deepest despairs as of its dubious ecstasies. And frequently this solitude was creative. From it some times came the dreams, the hopes and the soaring aims that charged life henceforward with meaning and contributed to giving us our poets, artists, scientists . . . But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless...
...week over the relative potencies of "condemn" and "censure," one fact was as welcome as it was clear: the Senate has hung a can on Senator McCarthy that years of tongue wagging will not shake off. While the law-makers of the 83rd Congress have cured the most apparent symptom of the disease that McCarthy brought to the upper house, next year's 84th Congress should strike at the cause of the sickness by placing effective curbs on committees. It should assure the nation that no other unscrupulous individual will ever use the broad powers of a Congressman for personal...