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...Chief Justice Earl Warren...
Despite the fact that he led the U.S. Supreme Court to an unprecedented expansion of individual liberties, Earl Warren remained troubled by obscenity, a problem that his court wrestled with but did not solve. As pornography has proliferated in ever-ranker forms, an increasing number of people are demanding a return to some kind of censorship. Nowhere have they made this demand more insistently than in Warren's home state of California, where Sunset Strip in Hollywood flaunts all sorts of sex shows, with total nudity advertised on every block to the point of total boredom, and factory-like...
...close to well-equipped hospitals. Green Springs, in Louisa County, filled all the requirements. In 1970 the county board of supervisors, delighted at the prospect of gaining part of the prison's $1.5 million annual payroll, endorsed the project. As for the historic architecture, said Supervisor R. Earl Ogg, "Why, Virginia is full of houses like that...
...long-range effect, many fear, will be to cripple the kind of tough investigative reporting that serves as an unofficial check on government at all levels. New York Times Newsman Earl Caldwell, one of the principals in the cases brought to the Supreme Court, goes even further. "Now," he said last week, "it's really impossible to do serious reporting in the U.S. if the Government doesn't want...
...matches, the decision about whether a contestant has been "killed" by his opponent is made by an earl marshal, who also enforces strict safety rules. The marshals decide if a particular stroke, had it been delivered with a real weapon, would have lopped off an arm or a leg; if so, the "wounded" soldier must continue to fight with an arm behind his back or while resting on his knees...