Caption: While supreme court justices inside hand down a ruling at a special session in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case, a crowd of persons waits outside the columned court headquarters for word of the proceedings. No signs such as pro-rosenberg demonstrators have displayed eslewhere in the capital were in evidence. Police have orders to keep "pickets" away from the court. The justices refused to uphold a stay of execution granted the convicted atom spies by justice Douglas two days ago.
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