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...carefully avoided ruling on the constitutionality of the law, but it left little doubt about its opinion. It cited Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 Supreme Court decision holding that married couples cannot be prosecuted for using birth-control devices because there is a substantial right to marital privacy, "The import of the Griswold decision," said the Seventh Circuit, "is that private, consensual, marital relations are protected from regulation by the state...
...enforcement officials. Japan, with 100 million people, allows only 100 of them to own pistols, for shooting matches. Britain authorizes their use on pistol ranges and almost nowhere else. But in the U.S., 70% of shooting deaths are caused by handguns. Often the weapon is a cheap, .22-cal. import. In Houston, where 244 murders were committed in 1967, a tinny .22 known as the "Saturday-night special" figures in a disproportionate number of killings. In Charlotte, N.C., foreign-made light pistols are known as "hand grenades" among police because they are likely to explode in the user's grip...
...import boom is the result of a three-year-old U.S. Canadian trade agreement that, by eliminating all tariffs on cars shipped across the border, has created a vast if little-noticed common market now accounting for fully one-fifth of the two countries' $14 billion in annual trade. Traffic within that market runs both ways-the U.S. last year imported 318,000 cars from Canada, exported 239,000 to its neighbor in return...
...some, it seemed as if McCarthy had already given up on Nebraska. But he toughened his approach to the extent of needling Kennedy repeatedly, accusing him of such failings as not knowing from which side to milk a cow (from the animal's right) and voting against meat-import restrictions. But he got little response from the cattlemen...
THERE WILL be a good deal of pressure for an expansion of the SDR's power from the member nations, particularly the underdeveloped nations. Because they must import large quantities of machinery and other producers' goods, they have chronic balance-of-payments difficulties and will demand more and more credit in the form of SDR's. For exactly the same reason they lack large reserves of dollars and particularly of gold. Fearing the operation of Gresham's Law (that the best currency drives out all others as a store of value) with gold being the most highly-prized form...