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Wraysbury Weathers It Sir: Your June 28 article on Christine Keeler was to the point, but inaccurate in its description of Wraysbury as a "dingy town," though you may be forgiven for noting that some of our 700-year-old buildings have lost their first freshness! You see, for more than a thousand years Wraysbury has never been anything but a village...
...RIGG Wraysbury, England Sir: Lest anyone feel self-righteous about his country's morality status upon reading about Keeler & Co., let him ponder the moral issues contained in your cover story on civil rights, or the column on Tony Pro, or "Two Definitions of Obscenity" in the Press section [June...
First, of course, was the continuation of the Profumo Case. In Marylebone Magistrates' Court, Osteopath Stephen Ward, mentor of Christine Keeler and friend of disgraced War Secretary John Profumo, was ordered to stand trial on seven charges of procuring, arranging abortions, and living off the earnings of prostitution. By the close of the three-day hearing, Magistrate Leo Gradwell had permitted numerous witnesses to testify without revealing their identity, even allowed one witness to leave the courtroom shrouded in a topcoat...
Television, which now lights up more than 200,000 screens, is a perennial as sault on Gaelic puritanism. Ireland's own station competes with programs beamed from Britain that seem incredibly risque to Irish viewers; the BBC's uninhibited coverage of Christine Keeler's exploits has even jogged the stodgy, self-censoring Irish press into giving readers all the details. Many Irishmen, increasingly resentful of censorship, have taken to sampling censored books, films or plays by taking the 90-minute flight to London - where far more horrendous temptations abound...
Perhaps what the England of Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward needs is a touch of old Scotland. Judging by the archaic language of the Scottish Bigamy Act (1551), few offenders are more frowned upon than "thame that maryis twa sindrie wyfis or husbandis levand togiddir undervorsit [undivorced]." Under the act, punishment of such culprits is fixed at "confiscatioun of all theair gudis mouabill of their persounis for yeir and day." Also, they may "neuer habill to bruke [never again bear] office of honour, dignitie nor benefice...