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...Midnight Knock. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, by the tightest of decisions (5-4), upheld the fine and the 1801 Baltimore ordinance, and ruled that the health inspector's visit did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guaranteed "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures...
...rounded artist. As a painter, he has taken the unusual path of going through the abstract to the representational, now goes back to the early Italian of the 15th century and its quiet, still sort of thing." Says Lionni himself: "It's a question of always keeping the tightest coherence between the means at your disposal and what you're trying to achieve. Design, which is primarily communication, must be competitive. Painting, which is primarily expression, must be spontaneous. I am completely capable of forgetting one when I'm doing the other...
...Dartmouth and Brown will be greatly improved this winter," Weiland predicts. "And Yale, with their fancy new rink, will be hard to beat." All in all, the Ivy race will be tight, probably the tightest it has ever been--and the Crimson may be shut out of the leadership...
This week, as the College of Cardinals balloted on a new Pope, they acted under the tightest code of secrecy in the history of the papacy. Author of the rules, which decreed excommunication for the slightest leak: press-relations-conscious Pius XII, who may have known more about the foibles of Popes' aides and press than anyone thought he knew. With the strict code in force, the edgy press corps watched smoke rise from the chimney in the Sistine Chapel after the first two ballots last week and, in each case, fired off false bulletins. They flashed too soon...
Trying to wrest some sense out of France's wavering progress between civil war and De Gaulle, the French press last week also had to grapple with an old enemy: censorship. Though vague and erratic, the government's censorship was the tightest invoked by any Western democracy since the end of the war. Amateur censors, hurriedly recruited from the civil service, stood watch at all the wire services and most big daily newspapers, heavily blue-penciled many a story...