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Last week the Senate: ¶ Defied the butter lobby by repealing the 48-year-old federal tax of 10? a pound on colored oleomargarine, and ¼? a pound on uncolored. In the heat of debate, Wisconsin's butter-loving Alexander Wiley pleaded with his colleagues to remember that "the dairy cow is the foster mother of the race." The Senate granted only one concession to the butter makers: oleo would have to be sold in triangular instead of rectangular packages...
Cybernetics Shock. Professor Aiken need not worry: bigger problems are on the way. The success of the automatic calculators set off an explosion of high, wide & handsome pondering that is still reverberating. One of the first recorded tremors was a small, extraordinary book called Cybernetics (John Wiley & Sons; $3), by Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. (TIME...
Robert L. Wiley, Jr.: Jublice Committee, Lowell Dance Committee, freshman wrestling...
...charge against Yamashita was that he had "unlawfully disregarded and failed to discharge his duty as commander to control the operations of the members of his command, permitting them to commit brutal atrocities . . . thereby violated the Laws of War." This charge, described by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge as "vagueness if not vacuity," laid down a new principle-that a commander is a criminal if his men violate the Laws of War, whether he ordered the violations or even knew of them...
...Supreme Court minority of two-the late Justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge-dissented in grave words. They were appalled by the "wide departure from any semblance of trial as we know that institution." Warned Murphy: "[Yamashita's trial] is unworthy of the traditions of our people . . . The high feelings of the moment doubtless will be satisfied. But in the sober afterglow will come the realization of the boundless and dangerous implications . . . No one in a position of command in an army, from sergeant to general, can escape those implications...