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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Rights. Key to the Government's successful long-shot prosecution was Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman's ruling that the police, in halting and questioning the defendants, had not encroached upon the constitutional guarantee against illegal search and seizure. Judge Kaufman, whose scrupulous conduct of the death-sentence Rosenberg spy trial (TIME, April 16, 1951) withstood all appeals, held that the police had "reasonable grounds" for believing that "a crime might have been committed"; that "the circumstances were such that an immediate stoppage and investigation was rendered absolutely necessary." Those questioned, said the court, were merely getting...
...Queen must do her job without a murmur, and Britain's Elizabeth did it stoutly when South Africa's new Governor General, Charles R. Swart, came to pay his first call. After the usual formal audience, she gave a lunch in Swart's honor at Buckingham Palace...
...R. B. TUFTS New York City...
...politicians of Venezuela took to TV last week and made note of a heartening accomplishment: in the year since President Rómulo Betancourt, 51, was elected, the country has for the first time in history had a functioning constitutional democracy under popularly chosen leaders and with full freedoms...
...case went into court last January when a Columbus federal grand jury indicted the four: Mains, sales vice president of the Union Fork & Hoe Co. of Columbus; William G. Rector and Robert R. Raymond, president and vice president of the True Temper Corp. of Cleveland; and F. Bliss Winn. president of the O. Ames Co. division of McDonough Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment charged that at meetings held over the past five years they discussed setting identical prices for hundreds of implements, chiefly for gardening, such as rakes, shovels, picks, trowels, sidewalk scrapers and sod lifters. With other...