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Last week, his flaming red beard turned white after twelve years' confinement in a District of Columbia mental hospital, 72-year-old Poet Ezra Pound heard himself adjudged incurably insane, but harmless enough to go free. So ruling on the motion, which had the consent of the U.S. Attorney General, Judge Bolitha J. Laws of the Federal District Court in Washington dismissed the U.S. indictment voted against Pound for his pro-Fascist, anti-Semitic broadcasts in Italy on behalf of Mussolini during World War II and freed the arrogant, warped old man to spend the rest of his senescence...
...Would you consent to a cease-fire in return for an immediate plebiscite...
...probe the mind are "open to reservations," however praiseworthy the ends. Some secrets, he said, "can absolutely not be unveiled, even to one prudent person." The Pope also condemned the use of lie detectors. Explained a Vatican official: "The lie detector is always illicit, even with the consent of the subject. Just as a man may not consent to euthanasia because religious law forbids him from doing away with himself, so he may not destroy his own freedom to answer or not according to his own judgment. Those who ask for a lie-detector test in order to prove they...
...right to transfer, reassign, abolish or consolidate functions in his department. He should also have "adequate authority and flexibility" to transfer funds within and between the Army, Navy and Air Force, including not only research and development funds but also funds for strategic planning and for operations. With the consent of Congress, the President would remove one present stumbling block to the Defense Secretary's authority: the incongruous statement in the National Security Act that the Army, Navy and Air Force must be "separately administered." Since the same act also states that the Defense Secretary should work out "integrated...
...call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians . . . The doctrine is not mine; I have not been crucified for anyone . . . Why should I, a miserable bag of worms, give my meaningless name to Christ's children?'' Only later, when Roman Catholics used the term as an insult, did Luther consent to let his name be applied to those who agreed with...