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Singer's trial on the contempt charges was originally scheduled for February, 1955, but a Federal Judge delayed the case to await the Supreme Court's decision in the Emspak, Quinn, and Bart cases, also involving a witness' refusal to testify before a Congressional committee. The Court's ruling in these cases, announced late last month, contained a generally broad intrepretation of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and may be relevant to the Singer case as well. In the majority opinion setting aside the contempt conviction of United Electrical Workers' official Julius Emspak, Chief Justice Warren wrote that...
...lighting controls. The new stage is the largest and best-equipped opera stage in the world. Complete sets can be rolled on, revolved, or lowered into a cavernous substage in a matter of minutes. Dressing rooms are wired for sound so that singers can follow the performance and await their cues in comfort...
...Adenauer is unable to attend Commencement exercises on June 16, he will have to await another invitation from the Corporation before an honorary degree will again be available from the University...
...flagrant" parking violations, and then local citizens, led by Councilman Edward J. Sullivan, demanded that the University permit only seniors to have automobiles at school. Together these two events have seemingly jeopardized the undergraduate's car-owning privilege. At the very least they have caused the student to await with apprehension the Administration's next decision on the parking problem...
...When food runs low, hunger destroys human feelings, levels rank, reduces commander and commanded to animals. By unspoken agreement, the commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there is no Hill 317"-in headquarters files, that is. Adam Ember, half delirious with hunger, has a vision of a huge...