Word: willard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while the feud between Powell and previously elected Attorney-General Louis Wyman might induce the stalwart investigator to resign, Wyman will probably return to continue his persecution of dissent. And to furnish a further indication that this atmosphere will not change, the Attorney-General's chief target, pacifist Willard Uphaus, failed last week to obtain review of his latest appeal to the Supreme Court...
...Alabama tried to force the NAACP to hand over membership lists, the Court answered that group privacy is indispensable to freedom of association. Since Wyman was cooperating with Attorney Generals from 37 states in compiling a blacklist, there is little reason why the Alabama decision should not apply to Willard Uphaus as well...
...values of his religious group, and the Bible, is just the one made by defenders of segregation. There is a fundamental conflict here. The irony of this case is that in employing civil disobedience and challenging the authority of the Supreme Court--but not in just criticizing it--Willard Uphaus might in the long run impair its development as the defender of civil rights and civil liberties...
...Willard Frank Libby, 51, in chemistry. A lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), slow-spoken member of the Atomic Energy Commission between 1954 and 1959, Libby is the man who pioneered in carbon 14, by means of which bones, beams and bogs can be dated as far back as 60,000 years ago (TIME cover...
...issue that this election will affect immediately is the Willard Uphaus case. Wyman has indicated that he may reopen investigations of the New Haven pacifist who was jailed for refusing to divulge names of people who attended his summer conferences in North Conway. Boutin does not think Uphaus's conviction was unjust, but says that the Subversion Act under which Wyman operated "isn't a good law."; Boutin's backers will probably influence him to forget the case. Uphaus may return unharassed to New Haven if Boutin wins on Tuesday, but there won't be a revolution in New Hampshire...