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Adam Clayton Powell is no ordinary clergyman - or Congressman. He spends much of his time these days cavorting in a Bahamian hideaway with a beauty queen that he has put on his payroll. He is a fugitive from his own district, where he faces a year and four months in jail for defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education...
Black appealed to London Magistrate Leo Gradwell, whose Marlborough Street court has jurisdiction over the Soho restaurant district and the offices of Exit's British publishers, Calder & Boyars. Black charged the publishers with violating the 1959 Obscene Publications Act by having "obscene articles in their possession for publication for gain." For his part, the magistrate cooperated by issuing a search warrant. The police seized three copies from the publishers and the prosecution was on -with no jury trial...
Firmly ruling that Exit "has a tendency to deprave and corrupt," Magistrate Gradwell ordered his three copies destroyed and in effect banned all future sales-a decision that actually applies only to his own Soho district. Despite that limitation, said one alarmed British publisher, Gradwell's precedent invites "any crank to start proceedings against a book he does not like. All you need is a friendly magistrate." As a result, the publishers are now practically begging the government to prosecute-with a jury. Their hope is obviously to give the book nationwide legal approval. Watchdog Black...
...District Attorney Robert Baker insisted that Whittaker had "complete physical control" of the drill with which he had bored burr holes in patients' skulls. Whittaker maintained just as stoutly that Dr. Stevenson had always put the drill in place. After the holes were drilled, a fine wire saw was passed through them to cut out the flap of bone. Toward the end of an operation, the surgeon or his assistant took a needle and suture thread and sewed up the dura mater, the brain's tough encasing membrane. A nurse testified that in some cases Whittaker had placed...
Barbara certainly did, but her special checking account registered near zero. To the rescue came her room mates, Mimi Feldt and Vivian Franco. Their solution: a party with a slogan: "Send Sobo to Spain!" By the hundreds, their dittoed orange invitations fluttered out over the District of Columbia: "The pleasure of your company is requested at a benefit party. Free beer and setups provided, plus band. Your contribution (of $1) will further the cause of international relations...