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Last week the Supreme Court unanimously upheld their refusal. The licensing statutes, ruled the court, are as unconstitutional as the Alabama membership-list-law requirement struck down in 1958. Freedom of association, said Justice Potter Stewart for the court, is protected "not only against heavy-handed frontal attack, but also from being stifled by more subtle governmental interference...
...telepathy, magic spells and Kikuyu lore, journeyed to London to demand the white man's land and political rights for his people. After 15 years in London and two in Moscow, he returned to Kenya to set up a network of bush schools, which spread antiwhite propaganda and upheld such barbaric Kikuyu rites as female circumcision,* which the missionaries and government officials had tried to stop. District officers stumbled onto fanatic ritual meetings in forest clearings. Later, word spread that tens of thousands of Kikuyu were taking fierce oaths of loyalty to a strange creed called Mau Mau, sealing...
Stonefaced, Italian-born Gambler Frank Costello, 69, lost one more foothold in his fight to stay on U.S. soil. The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a year-old federal court order stripping him of his citizenship because he called himself a real estate dealer instead of a bootlegger, when he was naturalized in 1925. But Costello will probably not go anywhere for a while: he is still serving a five-year sentence for evading more than $28,000 in income taxes...
Half Pre-Strike Size. But the unions were even harder shaken. When the pressmen, among the last of eleven unions to go out, joined the stereotypers, the papers fired them; the National Labor Relations Board upheld the dismissal. And violence broke out as the papers appeared to be proving their point: that modern, automatic printshop machinery can run on unskilled labor with far fewer hands than union featherbedding clauses demand. In January, ten newsprint delivery trucks were dynamited; last week five persons were indicted in connection with the bombings, including a member of the stereotypers' negotiating board...
...parents can't discuss and agree on prices. A decision that this was in violation of the law would affect hundreds and perhaps thousands of firms. A drastic reorganization of the structure of business would result." The lawyers for the 29 oil companies moved for acquittal. Judge Savage upheld them. Said Socony Mobil Chairman Fred W. Bartlett: "The acquittal's coming without necessity of presenting our defense simply proves what we have said all along-that the case against us proved to be no case...