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When the University of Illinois' Daily Illini last month deplored excessive necking at campus parties, Biology Professor Leo F. Koch, 44, sent the newspaper a forthright, academically, free reply: "With modern contraceptives and medical advice readily available at the nearest drugstore, or at least a family physician, there is no valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating their own codes of morality and ethics. A mutually satisfactory sexual experience would eliminate the need for many hours of frustrating petting and lead to happier...
...local TV program. Kansas City's forthright Artist Thomas Hart Benton, 70, broke off from mural painting in the nearby library of his old friend, Harry Truman, to lower a heavy easel on Russian art. Said he: "They have no use whatever for all this individualism, abstract impressionism, and what Harry-President Truman-calls 'ham-and-egg art . . .' The only good art they ever had was the art the church took out of Byzantine Greece into Russia-the making of those icons. Their realistic art is the worst kind of art borrowed out of the worst period...
What, asked a reporter, did Meany think about the likelihood that Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will become chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee next year? "Terrible," said forthright George Meany. "He has a bad voting and absentee record. He uses his position to stir up racial hatred. It's terrible to think that we will have a man like that as chairman...
...Hollywood's Sunset Strip, the smooth-talking fellows with the gleaming teeth no longer wink and say, "Come up and see my etchings." Last week, as the sun picked up the trine of Jupiter and Uranus, the new line was "Let's compare horoscopes," and many a forthright Virgo walked away enchantedly on the arm of a leering Libra...
...Kennedys have probably filled more picture-magazine space than all other candidates combined. A man of proven courage (his Pulitzer-prizewinning book. Profiles in Courage, was written while he was recovering from a painful, near fatal series of operations for a wartime spine injury), Kennedy has waged a forthright and energetic campaign on most issues, has doubled back only on his 1956 Senate vote against high, rigid farm price supports (the vote that lost him much Midwest support in the 1956 vice-presidential race) to embrace supports in this campaign. By poll and by general agreement of the professionals, Kennedy...