Word: circuit
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...when Playboy magazine heard about his predicament, Publisher Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation helped underwrite a habeas corpus petition. On the narrow legal ground that he was allowed to plead guilty without having been informed that he could have attacked the sodomy law constitutionally, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out Cotner's conviction by a 2-to-l vote. He is now free, after having served three years of his sentence, and is living with his grandmother in Illinois...
...left little doubt about its opinion. It cited Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 Supreme Court decision holding that married couples cannot be prosecuted for using birth-control devices because there is a substantial right to marital privacy, "The import of the Griswold decision," said the Seventh Circuit, "is that private, consensual, marital relations are protected from regulation by the state...
...King. "Aretha did everything wrong," recalls Mrs. King, "but it came out right. She had something?a concept of her own about music that needed no gimmickry. She was a completely honest musician." Groomed by Mrs. King, signed to a Columbia Records contract, Aretha began plying a sometimes seamy circuit of jazz and rhythm & blues clubs?with disheartening results. "I was afraid," she says. "I sang to the floor a lot." In the recording studio, she cut side after side with stereotyped pop arrangements ?which sold indifferently. Deep down, she knew what was wrong with her repertory of standards...
...Chitlin Circuit. It was not long before the soul sound began to move directly into the white market of pop music, and its purveyors started outstripping their white imitators. Charles was the first to reach a mass white public, starting as far back as 1955 with his hit record, I Got a Woman. In more recent years, a string of others have come along behind him. Lou Rawls, for example, is a former gospel trouper who spices his blues songs with reminiscences of his boyhood in Chicago's South Side slums. He used to work only in the Negro nightclub...
...word "activist," applied to a judge, usually refers to his judicial philosophy. It suggests a man who is always ready to extend the reach of the judiciary. In the case of Elbert Parr Tuttle, the description applies dramatically. For six years, Tuttle was chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which deals with such "Heart of Dixie" states as Mississippi and Alabama; under him that court has been a vital prod to civil rights...