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PEYTON PLACE (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A landmark: Episode...
...chief legal officer for the N.A.A.C.P., Marshall became a national figure in 1954 when he successfully argued the landmark school-desegregation case of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education before the Supreme Court. In all, he argued 32 civil rights cases before the high court, won 29 of them. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Marshall to a lifetime job on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). After almost a year's delay because of the objections of Southern Senators, the Senate finally confirmed Marshall's appointment...
What is now under way is a concerted effort by the Supreme Court to make the Bill of Rights a reality for all Americans. A landmark in this process occurred in the 1947 case of Adamson v. California, when the court debated whether state courts should be bound by the Fifth Amendment's provision that a defendant may not be forced to testify against himself. Four Justices argued that the 14th Amendment's due-process clause was a form of "shorthand" for all the guarantees spelled out in the first eight amendments, and that the Bill of Rights...
...with last week's national Sigma Chi convention in Denver, where Stanford and other delegates fought to gain local autonomy on member selection. The convention left Stanford still suspended, but authorized a commission to study "relationships with local colleges." All the same, the Stanford case had inspired a landmark ruling certain to affect fraternity life profoundly...
...populous East, Laval University, long a landmark of the Latin Quarter section of Quebec City, has moved most of its facilities to an ultramodern, $45 million suburban complex, decorated with murals in the style of the University of Mexico. Dalhousie, founded with $11,000 seized from Maine customs officials during the War of 1812, is crying for new millions to expand its medical school. In Fredericton, New Brunswick, the provincial university is bursting its serene bounds. The University of Montreal's 14,000 on-campus students will soon ride two new escalators tunneled through granite to reach their campus...