Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest hassle involved a visit to CBS's Merv Griffin Show by Chicago Seven Defendant Abbie Hoffman. In mid-taping, the Yippie peeled off his rawhide jacket to reveal a shirt that seemed to be cut from an American flag. After consulting its legal department, CBS decided that there was "the possibility of violation of law as to disrespect and desecration of the flag." It edited the tape to blank out Hoffman's image for the 51-minute interview...
...difficult to understand the excessive solemnity with which Americans treat the Stars and Stripes. What matters, of course, is just who wraps himself in the flag. Uncle Sam wears a flag outfit, and so did Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on a recent television show. Indeed, on the very Griffin show on which Abbie Hoffman's shirt was censored, CBS's New York affiliate transmitted an auto commercial showing a salesman hawking his wares in a starred-and-striped Uncle Sam suit...
...courts. There will be a number of individuals named along with the state in bringing suit, and presumably these individuals will have immunity from serving in Vietnam as long as the case is being heard. The day after Sargent signed the bill into law, one soldier, Pyt. John Griffin from Holyoke, filed suit to obtain release from orders sending him to Fort Dix, preparatory to going to Vietnam. Lower-level courts refused to hear his case, but he will probably not appeal to the Supreme Court under the new law. As Griffin's lawyer explained, rather than bring such...
...union's general counsel, Edward Carey, scoffed at the charges as "minuscule." Actually, they constitute a serious and unusual action against a union by the Government. Since passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act in 1959, only three new elections have been ordered in international unions for violations as defined by that...
Deans of several law schools in Pennsylvania and Michigan are expected to meet with Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.) and Minority Whip Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.) to try to change their minds. Scott and Griflin both voted with the majority on the committee yesterday...