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...years old, the Federalist Administration of John Adams invoked the Alien and Sedition Acts to prosecute no one more seditious than newspaper editors who supported the opposing Democratic-Republican Party. The World War I Espionage and Sedition Acts were used to arrest 2,000 antiwar dissenters who dared to utter or write "disloyal" statements about the flag or the Government...
...early last week, were reported close to breaking off relations with the U.S. Their hostility was underscored by an editorial in the Lagos Daily Express: "We offer no greetings to William Rogers as he steps on Nigerian soil today. For whatever bright promises and goody-goody talks he may utter, we still consider him persona non grata . . . the enemy of this country...
Died. Dr. Peyton Rous, 90, U.S. cancer researcher and virologist, who in 1911 first proved the existence of virus-induced cancer in animals; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though dismissed as "utter nonsense" at the time, Rous' discovery of a virus-transmissible cancer (sarcoma) was eventually accepted as a most promising lead in cancer research. It also launched his career at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute (now University), where he perfected the first technique for preserving whole blood for transfusions and opened the way for modern treatment of liver and digestive diseases. It was not until 1966, more than half...
...must either wipe out hatred, war, fear, injustice, deliberate public lies and the fatuous leaders who utter them, or these evils will wipe...
...Performers need no qualifications, only the desire to perform and the guts to stand there and chance making utter fools of themselves." Rochman said...