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...antiquated, obscure laws that are still on the books, you should have noted that at the vanguard of the movement to catch up with the times is Democratic Congressman Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey. He is fighting singlehanded for repeal of the 1892 law that forbids kite and balloon flying in the District of Columbia...
Thompson finds the law particularly repressive to Washington politicians, who ought to be able to urge their opponents to "go fly a kite" without being punished for soliciting the commission of a crime. And "what student of political science," asked Thompson in a speech on the floor of the House, "does not know the value of the trial balloon as an instrument of government? Are we now to label all our Chief Executives (not to mention aspirants to that great office) common criminals when they send aloft the name of a prospective Cabinet appointee...
Blue laws* are relics of a time when church and state seemed inextricably intertwined. They survive through the same sort of legislative inertia that preserves the numerous city ordinances against kite flying-a pastime once feared as a sure horse-frightener...
Pulled down from the sky like a kite, Mastroianni wakes up in a cluttered bedroom at a sleazy spa. Circling sycophants plague him with questions about the movie, tiresome actresses whine that they cannot possibly go before the cameras, reporters pepper him with questions ("Are you a Communist? Are you against the A-bomb...
After military service, Freeman went back to law school-and politics. In his political career, Freeman tied himself to a high-flying kite named Hubert Humphrey. Both visceral liberals, the two met as undergraduates at Minnesota. Humphrey was seven years older-he was continuing an education interrupted by the Depression-but they became close friends. A far more talented politician than Freeman, Humphrey got elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 at the age of 35. He appointed Freeman to a couple of city jobs. In 1950, making his first try for public office, Freeman ran for state attorney general...