Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student porter service will no longer clean any freshman rooms--the first time that all vacuuming service has been cut off from Harvard dorms. Freshman toilets however, will still be disinfected...
...twice a week during this first summer, Lindsay has spent a couple of hours walking through the ghettos, accompanied by plain clothesmen and one of his aides. Tanned and in shirt sleeves, the Mayor walks unannounced into the offices of community organizations and businesses, stopping to answer questions, to clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk a few weeks ago in Harlem, a group of teen-agers ran up to the Mayor waving a dead...
...CLEAN tells it, the villain is Section 311 of the California Penal Code, a 1961 response to the U.S. Supreme Court's famous decision in Roth v. U.S. (1957), which held for the first time that the First Amendment does not protect obscenity because such expression is "utterly without redeeming social importance." Did this mean that "social importance" might save challenged material? The court did not say. Although Roth established other criteria for judging whether alleged obscenity should be protected, social importance was not included. In writing Section 311, however, the California legislature did include that test, thus going...
Endorsing a Test. In an effort to avoid censorship of legitimate literature, the California Supreme Court has endorsed the social-importance test as a necessary element in the prosecution of obscenity. In several recent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has seemed to agree. CLEAN's Proposition 16 would retain other Roth criteria but delete so cial importance entirely from Section 311's obscenity test...
...that, the voters seem unconvinced. Armed with the same mailing lists that proved so effective in the Proposition 14 campaign, CLEAN collected almost 600,000 signatures to put Proposition 16 on the November ballot-nearly one-third more than were needed. No one is surprised that the proposition is being supported by many a candidate for the state legislature, men who tend to hear their constituents loud and clear. As one high elective official in Southern California puts it: "If you say you're against CLEAN, you automatically become a 'dirty.' " According to a statewide poll taken...