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...whole, writes Dickerman Williams, the courts have adhered to the Marshall opinion-but this has not prevented abuses. "In recent years," says Williams, "the public has frequently read of witnesses who invoke the Fifth Amendment, particularly before congressional committees, but thereupon issue statements to the press that they are innocent of any crime . . . This practice has recently received impressive sanction in the form of an article by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School, in which he maintains that a man innocent of any crime may rightfully use the privilege when questioned concerning past membership in the Communist...
...committee thereupon concluded: "War has been defined as a contest of wills. A trained hand holds the weapon. But the will, the character, the spirit of the individual-these control the hand. More than ever, in the war for the minds of men, moral character, will, spirit are important. As a serviceman thinketh...
...civil-rights efforts, but he feared that this one, by incurring the hostility of certain Southern Congressmen, would result in the death of the whole school-construction bill. Powell's amendment would be fatal, snapped Bailey, and Powell knew it. Retorted Powell: "You are a liar." Thereupon, the scramble started...
...Georgia made its usual desperate noises. First, the State Board of Education voted to revoke "forever" the licenses of any teacher, Negro or white, who "supports, encourages, condones or agrees to teach mixed grades." Thereupon, State Attorney General Eugene Cook popped a suggestion of his own: he demanded that the new ruling apply to any teacher who joins or even contributes to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...independence leader in West Pakistan, frail, bearded, lumbago-plagued Mirza Ali, also known as the Fakir of Ipi. The Fakir of Ipi's impetuous followers, who love their girls second only to their guns and woo them with a ditty which begins, "Your eyes are two loaded pistols," thereupon increased their pressure on the Karachi government. By now, Prime Minister Daoud, expanding his notion of Pakhtoonistan to include more than half of West Pakistan, was demanding all the territory west of the Indus River, right down to the Arabian...