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...Spain is owned by 20,000 people." Scenes of old farmers and young boys, clumsily drilling in work clothes, grinning with hope as they go to the front, running helter-skelter into battle, are intercut with shots of Franco's disciplined soldiers and Hitler's crack Condor Legion. At war's end, boys and grizzled men are marched off by the victorious Nationalists to be shot, and the sound track quotes French Novelist Georges Bernanos: "They seized them each evening in remote hamlets, at the hour of return from the fields. They departed on their last journeys...
...Condor, and specifically Dancer Carol Doda, Lawyer Harry Wainwright pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court last March, considering a censorship case involving the Danish film A Stranger Knocks, ruled that the acts of sexual intercourse semi-depicted on the screen were not necessarily obscene, and further insisted that the First Amendment applied to freedom of conduct and expression as well as speech. An "expert witness" duly testified that the performance, "applying contemporary standards of the average person," was not "of prurient interest." The judge agreed...
...Instructed Verdict. Guardians of the public morals, self-appointed or official, have had little success in repressing the exhibitionism. Most recently, the San Francisco police raided two North Beach nightclubs, the Condor and the Off-Broadway, and dragged both proprietors into court. The Off-Broadway, which offers topless waitresses along with such name performers as Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton and Trini Lopez, was accused of operating "a lewd and obscene exhibition" and of "conduct outraging public decency...
President Clark Kerr opened the meeting in the paneled Regents' Room of the University's Los Angeles campus with a long report on such scholarly research as treatment for fruit canker and survival of the condor. Finally, he brought up the subjects that had summoned Governor Pat Brown from Sacramento and newsmen from all over the state. Should the 23 regents under Chairman Edward Carter accept a demand, supported by Berkeley students and faculty, that a committee of professors henceforth pass judgment in student discipline cases? And should the university abandon its regents-conferred right...
...Wharf, for abalone and prawns. There are some of the best restaurants in the U.S. There are the swinging nightspots of North Beach, where the most popular dance is that variation of the twist called "the Swim," which, until last week at least, was taught at The Condor by an instructress in a topless swimming suit atop the piano...