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Last week, far from shellshocked, but obviously aware that it was dealing with high explosives, the Supreme Court settled back to listen to three days of argument on the U.S.'s sharpest social issue: segregation of Negroes and whites in public schools. Segregation is mandatory under the laws of 17 states, and is legal, if local districts want it, in four others.* Before the court were cases from four states (South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas) and the District of Columbia. The cases varied in detail, but they added up to a carefully coordinated effort by the National Association...
...testify whether they are or have been Communists (all have been suspended or fired). The lawyers' brief covered more than that; it promised to serve as a navigational chart for the relatively unexplored territory of obligations and privileges of an international civil service. Some of the lawyers' sharpest points...
Queen Victoria called it a "mad, wicked folly," and was not amused. But male observers, then and later, have been both amused and convinced. The latest, Oliver Jensen, lets the camera make his sharpest comment for him. His picture history, The Revolt of American Women, chronicles more than half a century of rapid change which carried the female of the U.S. species "from bloomers to Bikini-from feminism to Freud." In text and captions, Author Jensen shines up an old masculine brief to new brightness, i.e., that the fight for equality began as a war between the sexes and ended...
...This is not to imply that the puckish little man is always a joker. He can be as sarcastic as he is jolly, should the occasion require. He is a tough taskmaster, and any deviations from the perfection he demands bring a biting, albeit witty, comment. Even at its sharpest, the Williams crack has a decidedly humorous aspect...
...comments from the floor. . . . Yet even I was surprised when. . . I received an official letter from the council of the institute stating disapproval of my views as expressed in the lecture. I realized then that this organization was under Communist control and wrote back condemning their attitude in the sharpest terms...