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...proposal before the Berkeley city council becomes law, hoteliers will be offering more than a bed, bath and Gideon Bible. Leland Traiman, a registered nurse who treats AIDS patients, has suggested that the city help combat the spread of the disease by requiring hotels and motels to equip each guest room with safe-sex information kits, including condoms. The kits would also be distributed at some local massage parlors and saunas. "There could be a sign with each kit saying, THE BIBLE MAY SAVE YOUR SOUL, BUT THIS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE," says Traiman. Some innkeepers fear that guests might...
Introducing the film based on his 1964 novel "Gideon's Trumpet," Lewis told 50 Law School students that the ACLU is necessary organization which fights for and protects people's basic civil liberties. "Gideon's Trumpet" details the U.S. Supreme Court case of Gideon vs. Wainwright, which extended the right of legal representation to defendants who could not afford...
...Fortas--New Deal liberal whiz kid, chief counsel in the Gideon case, drafter of what amounted to a Juvenile Bill of Rights while an associate Supreme Court justice--owned a chauffeur-driven two-tone Rolls Royce. It is a harsh fact to remember...
American interest in the cap revived in 1977 with publication of Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones, by Barbara Seaman and Dr. Gideon Seaman, which contains a brief chapter extolling the merits of the cervical cap. The women's self-help movement began pushing for the contraceptive, but the FDA, citing a 1976 law regulating medical devices, ruled that it would have to undergo testing for safety and efficacy. More than 40,000 women ultimately took part in the stringent and lengthy trials...
...joined in the fun. Says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans: "When there's a national festival, the hucksters are there. That's nothing new." Pens, place mats, puzzles, ashtrays, comic books and even thermometers will carry a constitutional motif. Hilton Hotels will place copies of the Constitution along with Gideon Bibles in each room. For Saturday-morning viewing, ABC Television has produced a series of Constitution Bicentennial Minutes, featuring Bugs Bunny and friends...