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Lady Chatterley's Lover. Traveling a middle road was Justice John Marshall Harlan. On the ground that the states "bear direct responsibility for the protection of the local moral fabric" but the U.S. Congress "has no substantive power over sexual morality," he concurred in rejecting Alberts' 14th Amendment plea, but dissented in the First Amendment Roth case. Wrote Harlan: "The danger is perhaps not great if the people of one state, through their legislature, decide that Lady Chatterley's Lover goes so far beyond the acceptable standards of candor that it will be deemed offensive...
Static-Free Synthetics. Two new processes to eliminate the static from synthetics so they will not cling to the skin and gather lint will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
...choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went on to cloak him with all the dignity and authority of a leading citizen. Few unscrupulous men have woven themselves so tightly into the business, social and civic fabric of a city...
...Eisenhower Republicans state their case against the Old Guard in shorter and simpler terms. They believe that the social legislation of the New Deal is a fact of U.S. history, that social security, for instance, is as basic to the national fabric as free enterprise. They see gradually expanding Federal Government as the price of rapidly expanding national growth, and foreign aid as the price of international leadership. In addition to the top administrative officials of Government and a sturdy bloc in Congress, Eisenhower Republicanism includes the major elected Republicans who are closest to the voters: the 19 G.O.P. governors...
...Bach, the recitative was not merely an easy way to eat up text and set the key for the next aria, but an integral part of the musical fabric. The founder of the Orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, was on hand for the concert, and he must have been pleased to hear it giving fine performances of such great music...