Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conduct, Not Content. The evidence failed to show that he had even planned to, ruled California's highest court as it reversed Klor's conviction. Basing its reasoning in large part on the Supreme Court decision affirming Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg's five-year federal sentence for sending obscene matter through the mails, the California Supreme Court held that obscenity cases should turn more on the objective conduct of the defendant than on a judge or jury's subjective opinion about the content of his product...
MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Some day this annual event will be broadcast from Venus with a bunch of Martians presiding, but in the meantime viewers will have to be content with Miami Beach, Pat Boone, June Lockhart and Jack Linkletter. In color for the first time, though...
Though the garden-variety 19th century English baronet was normally content with a small, showcase library, Sir Thomas Phillipps was a certified bibliomaniac. Eventually his passion for manuscript collecting carried him to the point of buying the entire stock of London wastepaper merchants. He collected to the extent that his wife complained that they were "booked out of one wing and ratted out of the other...
High Protein. What interests researchers the most about the soybean is its high protein content (up to 50%), and this month Central Soya will begin mass production of Promine, an isolated soybean protein, at a new Chicago plant. Promine binds and emulsifies pulverized meats, such as sausages, meat loaf and bologna...
...former King Saud, by Mayor Robert Wagner in 1957 nearly precipitated an international incident. But no one appeared overly perturbed last week. The Waldorf rolled out the usual red carpet for the visiting monarch, the 35th-floor presidential suite was made fit for a King, and Feisal appeared content to dine (on cold shoulder?) in his quarters. "I think," said a Saudi official, "the King is above being angered by something trivial like this...