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Some of these statements are valid; most of them are dangerously misleading. Most inaccurate of the lot are the comparative U. S.-Russia military strength tables. The armed forces presumably have accurate intelligence information on Russian strength but magazines can't get at this data--the tables are based on "reliable sources," generally shrewd conjecture. And quantitive figures are mis-leading. Russia's land strength is numerically impressive, for example, but military men point out that most Russian divisions have been more or less inactivated, just like our own. The Russian air force is large but considerably outmoded, and there...
...arrested on a warrant charging him with counterfeiting postage stamps. He was picked up in his one-room Manhattan office, which the arresting U.S. Treasury officers promptly searched. The majority opinion rested on the contention that the search & seizure of stamps as evidence were incidental to a valid arrest and did not extend beyond the room used for unlawful purposes...
...Council members who favored approval of the bill claimed that there was valid precedent for their action. They cited the Barnes Bill hearing two years ago when the Council opposed legislation banning communist sympathizers from University employ. But this is not valid precedent; the Barnes Bill, if enacted, would have had great impact on College educational policy. This is not true of the transportation reduction bill...
...this extraordinarily tangled situation there are valid arguments on both sides. Briefly the Council appears to have been guilty of a certain looseness in its election procedure, while the accuser has made apparently unfounded implications of personal corruptness in various Council and election committee men. But, whatever the results of the argument, we are fortunate in having a chance, by Council decision, to lay forever the ghost of this controversy. We can be pleased that the Council has chosen this quick and open and honest method of conclusively deciding the merits of the case...
...ballot with less than 13 names checked was considered valid...