Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juror on the Hustler trial [Feb. 21]. I feel it is important to point out that the rights of a community to decide what is obscene is the law laid down by the Supreme Court. This law applies not only to conservative Cincinnati but also to every community in our nation. No one in Cincinnati has forbidden Larry Flynt to publish Hustler or burned any of his magazines. But while Flynt has a right to publish Hustler magazine, every community also has the right to declare it obscene. This may seem like a paradox, but obscenity, if left unrestricted, will...
Thank you for the bit about Misty Malarky Ying Yang [Feb. 28]. After a long and virtually uninterrupted tenure of dogs, it is reassuring to know that there is now a Siamese cat in the White House to keep an eye on things. Irish Setters and Golden Retrievers are all very well in their way, but they are too much given to a naive acceptance of any human as a friend...
...Feb. 8, 1977. Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a former car salesman, held a loan-company official with a shotgun harnessed to the victim's neck for 63 hours, demanded cancellation of a mortgage. Result: he gave up after immunity was promised; immunity was not granted...
...Feb. 11, 1977. After watching Roots, Jesse Coulter, 42, held eight people in a home for unwed mothers in Cincinnati, demanded help in finding a son he had given up for adoption 20 years earlier. Result: a police officer pretending to be his son talked him into freeing the hostages...
...Feb. 14, 1977. Fred Cowan, 33, an American Nazi cultist, killed five men in a New Rochelle, N.Y., moving company after he was suspended from his job (TIME, Feb. 28). Result: Cowan committed suicide...