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More important than all the other changes is the fact that the center, the heart of London, has gravitated slowly westward to the haunts of the city's new elite, just as it did in centuries gone by. The ancient Tower, built by the Norman Plantagenets, gave way to...
For 20 years, companies have been working toward onboard warning systems to prevent mid-air collisions, which are often the result of visual illusions that lead pilots astray. Last month the Air Transport Association announced that development of a practical, economical device is "now closer to realization than at any...
Justice Brennan refused to endorse the trial judge's ringing condemnation of all three Ginzburg products as themselves obscene and "a gross shock to the mind." Instead, Brennan nailed Ginzburg for salacious sales pitches. In one Eros brochure, he blatantly promised articles on "Incest in the American Midwest," "Was...
By its decisions last week in three obscenity cases, the Supreme Court showed itself to be divided and sorely confused over the delicate question of censorship. It reversed the Massachusetts ban on Fanny Hill in a 6 to 3 decision and affirmed the conviction of Edward Mishkin, a publisher of...
The Ginzberg case is the most significant, for it demonstrates clearly the contortions the Justices are undergoing as they try to determine how much protection the public needs from men who write dirty books. Ginzberg had been indicted in 1962 for distributing through the mail a slick-paper, hard-cover...