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...Bureaucratic Mercy. Editors are concerned at this possibility and so is the U.S. Senate's leading libertarian, Sam Ervin Jr. of North Carolina (TIME, March 8). A Southern conservative politically, Ervin has made a personal crusade of defending individual freedoms from Government encroachment. Last week, in the first of a series of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings, Chairman Ervin and his colleagues heard the testimony of a parade of communications executives and experts...
...pronounced himself in "a more favorable position than any major league operator that I know of." The position of baseball itself, however, was less than favorable. Democratic Congressman B.F. Sisk of California called it "an illustration of just what money grabbers these people can be." North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, who happens to be chairing a Senate hearing on the possible merger of the two professional basketball leagues, called for antitrust legislation that would prevent franchise owners from shifting their teams like "private playthings" from city to city with a "public-be-damned attitude...
...that will stop violent behavior, and we are born with them," Mark asserts. To tap those mechanisms, scientists would like to develop an anti-aggression pill (estrogens, or female hormones, have already been used experimentally to inhibit aggressive behavior). Until they do, Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause violence in people with specific brain disease. Typical of their patients is a gifted epileptic engineer named Thomas, who used to erupt in rages so frenzied that he would hurl...
...surveillance. Senator Bayh announced that he intends to submit a bill that would allow citizens access to all Government files concerning themselves and would enable them to refute untrue or derogatory charges and limit dissemination of what the files contain. "Unless we take command of the new technology," said Ervin, "we may well discover some day that the machines stand above the laws...
This week the Monthly and Fledgling Editor Charles Peters will receive a George Polk award for an article revealing Army-intelligence surveillance of U.S. civilians involved in protests and political activity. The Jan. 1970 article bore other significant fruit: the congressional hearings held before Senator Sam Ervin Jr. (see THE NATION). Of perhaps greater long-range importance to the Monthly's future is that it is being noticed where it matters. It is must reading at the White House, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the Government. The praise of NBC's John Chancellor, former director...