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Still retreating from its 1957 Watkins decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the House Un-American Activities Committee's citation of Frank Wilkinson for contempt. Like its immediate precedent, the Barenblatt case, this one involves a witness who refused to answer questions put to him by the House committee. The Wilkinson ruling, however, has prompted anguished and angry dissents from Justices Black and Douglas and anyone who reads what they have to say about the implications of this decision ought to share their dismay...
...issue is whether the committee uses its powers as an investigating body to silence critics--as Wilkinson's defense claims. Apologists for the majority's decision insist that it does not give the committee authority to subpoena and humiliate anyone who publicly attacks its actions; the argument runs that the Court has merely found in this instance that the questions asked Wilkinson were legitimate and pertinent to its Atlanta investigations, bearing no relations to the man's hostility towards the committee. Reasonable as the apologists sound, they are blind to what Douglas and Black see: that a majority...
Named to succeed Baer as head tutor H. Francis Wilkinson, instructor in Economics...
Today the closest American counterpart to the Oxford College is probably the Harvard House. In order to find out how comparable the two institutions are, Rupert H. Wilkinson '61 visited New College, Oxford, while he was in England last Christmas...
Since signing on at Ole Miss in 1947, Coach Vaught has compiled a won-lost record of 109-29, second only to the 123-19 of Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson among major college coaches. In 1959 Ole Miss was a strong second to Syracuse in the national rankings. Last week, on the strength of its 24-3 defeat of tough Tennessee, Vaught's undefeated, once-tied wing-T squad stood third in the standings for the finest two-year record of any college team...