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According to Massachusetts law, the PR question cannot be placed on the ballot again for four years, but Lawrence W. Brennan, president of the Young Democrats, said last night that his organization "is considering legislative action to get the law changed...
...Brennan said that the Young Democrats "will decide on a definite strategy by the beginning of the week," and affirmed that the organization has been considering alternative action for some time in case the recount of PR ballots failed to produce victory...
...Brennan said that if the legislature does not act to change the State law, the young Democrats may attempt to get the PR question on the ballot next year "by changing parts of the proposal...
Shock or disgust, however, is not the issue. Any legal test for obscenity hinges on whether the matter appeals to prurient interest--whether the total effect of the book would be to arouse sexual desire in the average reader (In the Roth decision, Justice Brennan explicitly stated that "the portrayal of sex ... is not itself sufficient reason" to declare a book obscene...
Yesterday Brennan said that the vote "was not the will of the people but a satchel delivered by the transient liberals who make Cambridge a laboratory for their crackpot theories." He attributed the PR victory to the great strength of the system's chief advocate, the Cambridge Civic Association, in a few isolated city wards...