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Discussion leaders in Communist Party meetings in the New York City area have introduced a new time abbreviation in explaining party problems: ”B.W.” and “A.W.”—before Chief Justice Warren and after….The Communist Daily Worker paid tribute to the Supreme Court recently in these words: “The Department of Justice has run out its string. Since the historic June 17 decision of the Supreme Court, not a single appeals court has affirmed a Smith Act conviction. On the contrary, the government has thrown in the towel in Pittsburgh, Boston, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis. The Court of Appeals … freed all the Connecticut defendants … four Philadelphia defendants, and sent the rest back for retrials. “

Rep. Walter Rogers (Dem. Texas) has announced that he will introduce a bill in the new Congress permitting Congress to override Supreme Court decisions just as it does Presidential vetoes …. Circus Clown Emmett Kelly has asked Democratic Senator Fulbright to introduce a bill to subsidize transportation and wage costs for the circus….Vice President Nixon’s move to effect reduction of U.S. Technical Assistance staffs abroad has inspired an organized campaign of protest from foreign mission posts.

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