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...sale or rental of private homes. The California Supreme Court subsequently voided both amendments as unconstitutional. This election day, the voters face another explosive issue: Proposition 16, which is aimed at sharply amending the state's anti-obscenity statute in order to "control the flood of filth which is engulfing California...
...have been sentencing people for 27 years," Judge Irving Ben Cooper told the defendant in Manhattan's Federal Court, "and it has been a long time since I have come upon a case that was so revolting as your case. I think you are so steeped in filth that as I read the report I cringed, and my flesh crept as I read the depth of iniquity to which you have allowed yourself to sink...
...water, has three Vietnamese nurses (two women, one man) to assist him. He makes rounds with an interpreter and is lucky to have one-many project doctors have to elicit symptoms and give instructions by sign language. Like all newly arrived Americans, he was appalled at first by the filth and overcrowding in the wards, with two or three patients in a single dirty bed. Within 48 hours he was performing as many as seven major operations a day, was so immersed in work that he hardly noticed the conditions...
...million. Moreover, "all the ingredients now exist for an air-pollution disaster of major proportions-given the same sheltered topography as Los Angeles, New York City would be uninhabitable." The biggest offender is the city government itself, whose eleven garbage incinerators alone spew forth some 39 tons of filth daily. The local utility, Consolidated Edison, is another major contributor, last year burned 10 billion Ibs. of soft coal and more than 800 million gals, of oil inside city limits...
...will get me out of this filth one day. He is a God of mercy, dressed all in white and sitting on a golden throne." A Dutch charwoman says: "God is a ghost floating in space." Screenwriter Edward Anhalt (Becket) says that "God is an infantile fantasy, which was necessary when men did not understand what lightning was. God is a cop-out." A Greek janitor thinks that God is "like a fiery flame, so white that it can blind you." "God is all that I cannot understand," says a Roman seminarian. A Boston scientist describes God as "the totality...