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Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, upheld the importance of increasing economic growth. Because growth rates add up like compound interest, he said, a four per cent annual increase results in a 141 per cent rise in twenty years, while a two per cent growth brings only a 50 per cent increase in the same period...
Author Vladimir Nabokov was in the news in two distant lands, where his controversial novel Lolita was upsetting both decent and indecent folks. In New Zealand a Supreme Court judge upheld a customs ban on the book. Ruled Sir Douglas Hutchison: "With the best consideration I can give it, I think Lolita is aphrodisiac.'' A sort of proof of his contention came in Israel, where one Joseph Wahrhaftig was nabbed for behavior tending to corrupt the morals of a minor girl. Wahrhaftig recently translated Lolita into Hebrew...
Subpoenaed by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission last summer to answer sworn charges that they had interfered with Negro voting, 17 Louisiana voting registrars claimed the constitutional right to know the charges against them, challenged the protective secrecy given Negro informers. A three-judge U.S. federal court upheld the registrars, enjoined the commission from holding hearings. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court denied (7-2) the registrars' claim, and thereby made the commission's subpoena a powerful weapon in behalf of Negro voting rights. But two of the court's most outspoken liberals-Justices William O. Douglas...
...little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky drew closer for ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 66, now tending his manifold private interests in Seattle. The State Supreme Court of Washington upheld his conviction for pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a used Cadillac that was owned by the trusting Teamsters...
...Named for the 4th to sth century British monk Pelagius, who held that man could achieve salvation by good works. Pelagianism was branded heretical by five church councils, which upheld the orthodox Christian position that, while good works are important, faith-and hence salvation-depends upon the grace...