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...second reason for questioning the Corporation's policy is its concept of simple, as opposed to grave, misconduct. According to this, use of the Fifth Amendment is misconduct, whether for protecting one's friends, protesting the committees' methods, or out of fear that the false testimony of others will lead to his indictment for perjury. While the cause of education would best be served by full and frank testimony before committees, and we wish all called would agree, this does not mean that a man should not protect himself from the viciousness of professional liars as they are presently used...
...United States today, the movement to get rid of legal murder is linked to an attempt to make prisons what they should be; rehabilitation institutions to cure the criminally ill. Osborne, Lewis E. Lawes, and Miriam Van Waters the rehabilitation concept opposes the archaic idea that criminals should be punished for punishment's sake...
...meet a Soviet atomic attack is to build up U.S. air power with particular emphasis on a strong retaliatory force, i.e., the Strategic Air Command. The Eisenhower defense budget, by striking sharply at plans for the Air Force buildup, seemed to imply either 1) some reservations about that strategic concept, or 2) a decision that, while the concept is right, its execution is unrealistic. The decision to cut back air power would be militarily justified, for instance, by solid evidence that the Soviet threat had never been great enough to warrant a 143-wing Air Force, or that...
...point of view expounded by Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, who believes that continued vast expenditures for defense exposes the U.S. to economic collapse. The defense goals set by the Truman Administration, said Defense Secretary Wilson this week, "could not be attained within the time contemplated and within the concept of a reasonable balance between federal expenditures and revenue...
...lawyers might have expected, the protection which the court now has provided the witness is not based on any explicit constitutional provision. The court has not, in other words, extended the scope of the privilege against self-incrimination or expanded the concept of free speech. It has simply held that the recalcitrant witness may not be convicted of contempt when the government fails to establish affirmatively that the question which he failed to answer was "pertinent to the question under inquiry." In the Bowers case the application of this principle meant that a defendant summoned before the Kefauver Committee could...