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...face of such Burroughsian challenges the other side typically seeks refuge behind the grey, authoritarian prose of the law. In Massachusetts, whoever sells to a person under 18 anything which is "obscene, indecent or impure, harmful to minors, or manifestly tends to corrupt the morals of youth" faces imprisonment for five years and a $5000 fine, Chapter 272, Section 28, of the Massachusetts General Laws Annotated proclaims...
...reply, the boar burned the bull. Luther had attacked indulgences with more than theological argument. In a calculated appeal to the growing spirit of German nationalism, his treatises complained that a soft and corrupt Rome was robbing Germany of its wealth. Within weeks after he wrote them, Luther's latest polemics were printed and circulated throughout the Holy Roman Empire. By 1521, when he was invited by Emperor Charles V to answer the charges against him at the Diet of Worms, the unknown friar had become a folk hero. There, Luther once more insisted that only Biblical authority would...
...Indian-hating lady (Barbara Rush) and rustle the horses, leaving Newman to lead the little band to shelter. The band, it turns out, consists of soloists who cannot harmonize: a malleable Mexican driver (Martin Balsam) who has settled for permanent second-string status; Rush's husband, a corrupt Government agent Fredric March); a pair of bickering teenagers; and a wry-and-ginger redhead (Diane Cilento) who wouldn't mind becoming Newman's squaw...
...reduces the number of his mistresses to three. "I'm trying to cut down," he explains, then proceeds to extricate a Government official (Lee J. Cobb) from a conspiracy of vixens who try to take over the world. The gals' roguery includes a rogues' gallery of corrupt generals. Their weaponry consists of thousands of dryers installed in beauty parlors around the world to wash women's brains along with their hair...
Specter's mayoral qualifications are exemplary: as assistant attorney general, he singlehandedly reformed Philadelphia's corrupt magisterial system and convicted three errant magistrates (TIME, Oct. 1, 1965); as D.A. he initiated a round-the-clock police court to speed justice for minor offenders and won Negro support by padlocking dives in "the jungle" of North Philadelphia. Previously backed by the Americans for Democratic Action despite his party switch, Specter also has the wholehearted support of Philadelphia's Republican Boss William Meehan...