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After a bitter twelve-day floor fight, the House last week produced a fair-housing bill that gave the Johnson Administration several slices less than half a loaf. The President wanted a law that would forbid racial discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing in the U.S. The House balked at such a sweeping measure. It voted to exempt individual owners who make no more than two sales a year and landlords who rent buildings with no more than four units and live on the premises. The bill thus covers 23 million of the nation...
Whether or not Klor's films were really obscene, said the court, the California antismut law does not forbid "mere preparation of obscene materials." Instead, it penalizes "dissemination or intended dissemination." Not only had the prosecution failed to prove that Klor intended to distribute his unedited films in their allegedly obscene form, but worse, said the State Supreme Court, the trial judge had misconstrued the law and wrongly "communicated to the jury the idea that it need not find 'an intention to distribute' if it concluded that defendant had prepared the materials...
There is no danger to their practice since SOS doctors are forbid den to see the patient in daylight hours. Instead, they charge a flat $10 per call plus the cost of medicine, then write a letter to the patient's regular doctor the next morning, informing him of the treatment given. It is all working so well that a group of Rome doctors has already arrived in Paris to study the procedure...
...hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions," said Justice William Brennan, speaking for the slim 5-to-4 majority that was obviously determined to defend the court's earlier admonitions to police, urging them to make more use of scientific crime-detection equipment. For that was just what a Los Angeles policeman was doing after a 1964 auto accident, when he caught a whiff of booze on Armando Schmerber's breath and ordered a doc tor to give Schmerber a blood test, even though...
...Board of Overseers started a probe, and exactly one month later the Faculty Council voted to forbid students to aid the schools by either tutoring or taking notes for them. Course instructors pledged to penalize "canned answers" on exams. With no source of advertising and a shrinking clientele, the schools began to founder...