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...lawyer. Warren flushed, began to shout: "Let him answer my question! He is confused enough as it is." Frankfurter grew pale behind his eyeglasses and cut back, "Confused by Justice Frankfurter, I presume." In 1958, they were at it again: Warren lashed Frankfurter, charging that one of his dissents made the court out to be "savage." And just six weeks ago the Chief Justice publicly criticized Frankfurter for delivering a long dissent that went beyond his written opinion in a lightweight larceny case...
...relentless as the cherry blossoms, 2,528 Daughters of the American Revolution burst upon the Potomac for their 70th annual séance. With nary a dissent, the Continental Congress passed resolutions condemning federal grants-in-aid, "demoralization in the entertainment world," and the issuance of postage stamps commemorating foreigners. In other actions, the Founding Mothers endorsed the Monroe Doctrine, engaged in a minor skirmish when a lone maverick opposed censure of the Peace Corps. Summarily shutting off the debate ("You've had your two minutes"), D.A.R. President General, Mrs. Ashmead White, gaveled through a resolution to keep...
From some of Protestantism's younger leaders, Dr. Bonnell's thesis evoked a raven chorus of dissent. Commented San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike: "The positive factors listed by Dr. Bonnell are valid, but as a group they don't add up to enough. They are happening, and without them we'd be further behind. But we are losing ground-we aren't even keeping up with population growth...
University students showed "some stirrings of skepticism and dissent'' in the 1950s. but Khrushchev has taken tough measures to keep the stirrings from getting out of control. In 1959 a rule went into effect that students had to put in two years' labor in a factory or on a collective farm in order to qualify for admission to a university. In practice, this requirement is pretty much waived for students of natural sciences, engineering and medicine, but enforced for those who want to study in the "ideologically sensitive" fields of history, social sciences, law and journalism...
...counter-demonstrators' whose read, "Abolish the Un-Ameri- Activities Committee," lay just to a venerable tradition of rican dissent. Their rivals in attan Center upheld a different age. They called themselves ng Americans for Freedom," their posters honored Senator y Goldwater, who would key- their meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they...