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...asterisks, argued its lawyers, Pacific would have to spend $4,300,000 to convert its directories. Granting McDaniel's petition, they added, would hamper charity drives and put phone solicitors (one market surveyor has 10,000 of them) out of work. Moreover, the state legislature would have to enact new laws making it a misdemeanor to ignore asterisks...
...Moreno had asked Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown to let Ruby out to play himself on the psychodrama stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
Muskie called for the Federal government to "emphasize and stimulate the exercise of responsibility on the part of local and state governments," and asked that states enact "model legislation," already worked out, which would combine and coordinate "local jurisdictions...
...Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Goodman's three-panel Trilogy suggests a man who enters a closet and hangs himself. His realism is obtuse, his figures often secret sharers in politely observed crimes or Baconesque participants in some gory exercise. Often he veils or blurs his figures. They seem to enact Dante's Inferno in modern dress, where the condemned of the sixth circle knew the eternal future and remembered the past but had no sense of their present horror. In the drama, they fulfill Goodman's ideals of stillness and deadly substance within a stagelike space that...
Senator Clark contended that only if the organization and procedure of the Senate corresponded to the ideological and geographical composition of the Democratic majority would the Senate be able to enact President Kennedy's programs. The Senator was correct that an unreformed Senate would obstruct the President, and this will be more true for President Johnson, who is openly advocating a program of social legislation. Reform will make little difference in the Senate's treatment of his program, however...