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...sternly guards his personal privacy, Dwight Eisenhower is remarkably candid on such personal matters as health and habits, which most Americans regard as nobody's business. Last week, asked in press conference by U.P. Newshen Pat Wiggins for presidential advice on how to give up smoking, Ike grinned and confessed: "Of course, I was a very heavy smoker, probably brought about through my life in the military and war, and all that I was asked to do was to be more moderate about it. No doctor ever told me I should stop. But for me it was easier...
...William J. Brennan, and last week Justice Brennan joined the liberal-tending War ren-Douglas-Black bloc to hold court-martial trials unconstitutional for overseas dependents. Reed was succeeded by Justice Charles Evans Whittaker, who did not participate in last week's decision. Harlan switched sides with the candid admission that time had given him "an opportunity for greater reflection.'' And Frankfurter, his mind finally made up. voted with last week's majority (but. like Harlan, only insofar as it affected capital cases). That left only two-Clark and Burton-where a year before had stood...
...November 1955, Earl Warren, longtime governor of California and new Chief Justice of the U.S., was remarkably candid in specifying his hopes for the direction of U.S. justice over the next quarter-century. Satisfied that "the more cynical forms of 'legal realism' are growing less fashionable," Warren declared for a credo of legal idealism. "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive," he wrote in FORTUNE. "The beginning of justice is the capacity to generalize and make objective one's private sense of wrong." Earl Warren's Supreme Court...
...equally candid with the West: the people of free Asia are "impatient ... to reduce their immense technical backwardness . . . They clamor for immediate economic development." Thus, said Diem, the debate among Viet Nam leaders is how "to attain economic progress without sacrificing essential liberties." Their choice is not between economic planning and no planning, but whether progress will take place by democratic or totalitarian means. Vital to the outcome of this debate, Diem warned, "are the efforts being made to safeguard liberal democracy through aid" from the industrial West. President Diem's implied point: if the West...
...luncheons the atmosphere is even more free and informal, the discussion still more open and candid. In the words of one Junior Fellow, "No one is afraid to ask even the most elementary question about the various projects of his colleagues." Often the conversation turns to national and university policies; clashes of personality and of interest are made more apparent...