Word: warrens
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Despite the financial obstacles facing most private universities (TIME cover, June 23), academe still has fearless optimists who figure they know how to beat the odds. No one is more con fident of ultimate success than Warren J. Winstead, president of the brand-new Nova University near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Brashly aimed at becoming a Southern counterpart to Caltech and M.I.T., Nova U. is being guided by a blue-ribbon panel of top educators, will open its first classes this fall with just 21 graduate students, all on full fellowships-and also with 25 Ph.D. professors...
...discrimination. That being so, the Supreme Court could only interfere if there were no rational basis for the state's treating interracial marriage differently from other marriages. Since scientific evidence on that point is in doubt, contended attorneys for Virginia, the court should not intervene. Chief Justice Warren swept the argument away almost contemptuously. "There can be no question," he wrote, "but that Virginia's miscegenation statutes rest solely upon distinctions drawn according to race. We have consistently denied the constitutionality of measures which restrict the rights of citizens on account of race...
...recent years, the court had several times passed up the chance to slap down interracial marriage bans. Presented squarely with the issue, however, the court was ringingly clear. "There can be no doubt," wrote Warren, "that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment. No state antimiscegenation law will be able to stand in view of that unqualified, uncompromising finding...
Accepted Standards. In Walker's case, the court was unanimous for reversal, although divided over the reason. Justice Black, joined by Douglas, argued once again that "the First Amendment was intended to leave the press free from the harassment of libel judgments." Chief Justice Warren and Justices Brennan and White held that public figures must also prove "actual malice" in accordance with the Times formula, which Walker had not done...
Obscenity Quagmire. The four justices therefore upheld Butts. They were joined by Chief Justice Warren, who found that the Post, unlike A.P., had been guilty of "actual malice." To dissenting Justice Black, any test of "unreasonable conduct" on the part of publishers, as promulgated by Harlan, seemed a promise of new problems. "If this precedent is followed," warned Black, "it means that we must in all libel cases hereafter weigh the facts and hold that all papers and magazines guilty of gross writing or reporting are constitutionally liable, while they are not, if the quality of the reporting is approved...