Abstract
The prosecution of several New Orleans newspapers on charges of conspiring to restrain trade in local advertising, following the government's still-pending antitrust case in Lorain, Ohio, emphasized the increasing importance of administrative law in the publishing field. The Senate investigation of horseracing information as an aid to nationwide gambling, too, had implications of legal regulation of certain types of news communication. Most important of all, perhaps, was the unprecedented action of the Atomic Energy Commission in ordering the destruction of an issue of Scientific American containing an article on the still-classified hydrogen bomb. Legal relations of the press are manifestly undergoing extensive revision in the era of the Fair Deal and atomic security. —W. F. S.
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