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...state supreme court may rule that the shadow which protects marriage does not reach "illicit intercourse." Balliro did not choose to predict that this argument will convince the court. But the argument does give Balliro a chance to list ways in which the laws impose frightening penalties upon those who are prevented from learning about or from taking advantage of birth control devices. The arguments take up only five pages of an 80-page brief, but a sample shows that they give the reasons behind most of the other legal reasoning...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: Baird in Court | 12/4/1968 | See Source »

Some of the buyers were Americans, who preferred to spend MFCs whenever possible and save their regular dollars to sell on the black market. They had ample reason. "Green" dollars, which wealthy Vietnamese coveted for squirreling away outside the country, brought about 200 piastres in illicit dealing. The scrip was also purchased by natives, who used it to buy military PX goods through G.I. contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: C-Day | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...unsolicited. He now has an Italian edition in print and claims worldwide rights to the book. In Britain, a man purporting to represent Solzhenitsyn delivered a manuscript to the Bodley Head publishers, who plan to issue it Aug. 1. Eventually, the Soviets apparently got fed up with all the illicit excitement about the book. Victor Louis, a Moscow-based journalist who has run such other errands for the Russian government as selling a copy of Svetlana Alliluyeva's Twenty Letters to a Friend before its authorized publication, delivered a manuscript to London's Flegon Press; its fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Notes from the Underground | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...sign-out book are mostly symbolic. The deans of students are for real. Even the printed regulations, thorough as they are, do not reflect the extent of the deans' authority. Their jurisdiction reaches into the private life of every student; they prosecute everything from messy rooms to illicit sexual behavior...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: White Harvard Students Tutor At A Southern Negro College | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...best is "Odessa," a pleasant little soft-shoe routine between illicit lovers Basil (David Paterson) and Studella (Nick Clark...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: All the Queen's Men | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

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