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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in an opinion written by Justice Tom Clark (Justices Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker and Potter Stewart concurring), the Supreme Court turned Uphaus down. The critical difference between Uphaus and Nelson, said the court, was that evidence in Steve Nelson's case had indicated activities not against a state but against the Federal Government. Wrote Justice Clark: "All the [Nelson] opinion proscribed was a race between federal and state prosecutors to the courthouse door. The opinion made clear that a State could proceed with prosecutions for sedition against the State itself." In a dissent...
...Barenblatt. In 1957, the Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 against the contempt-of-Congress conviction of John Watkins, onetime official of the Red-led Farm Equipment Workers International Union, who had refused to answer House un-American Activities Committee questions about Communism. The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice Warren, included a scathing denunciation of congressional investigative activities; critics of the opinion argued that in trying to put a rein on congressional investigators, the court instead had come up with a noose...
Bright and chipper as a schoolboy the first day of vacation, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 45, ex-dictator of Venezuela, bounced into the Miami office of State Attorney Richard Gerstein to do some explaining. A Caracas columnist had written that Pérez Jiménez pays $500 monthly for protection to the Miami Beach Police Chief, and Gerstein wanted to know all about it. Pérez Jiménez denied that he paid the police chief anything, but admitted that he hires off-duty Miami cops and pays them a total of $1,025 monthly...
...been included in the sound-track album can buy a Decca collection of excerpts, with Davis assisted by Carmen McRae. Both singers have a taste for vibrato, gratuitous grunts and wailing crescendos that achieve the remarkable effect of smearing some of the most singable lines ever written. On a United Artists album, Diahann Carroll, who appears as Clara in the movie, gets a chance to sing her own part and a number of other songs with the André Previn Trio (Previn was musical director of the film). Singer Carroll's personal Catfish Row apparently runs east from...
TEMPO DI ROMA, by Alexis Carvers (328 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $4.50), is evidence that nothing makes more pleasant reading than a novel that is both light and serious-unless it is a love letter written with tact. Alexis Curvers' light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight...