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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With their backs against the walls of moral virtue, the censors are prepared for a knock-down-drag-out fight, which I expect will last for years to come. They've no choice, from their viewpoint, for this is the last bastion. It will do civil libertarians no good to cry "But if we censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, free expression in the arts." The censors will cry equally plaintively, "But if we don't censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, the destruction of our civilization." As befits a subject with...

Author: By Emanuel Goldman, | Title: Defending Pornography on Its Merits | 1/22/1974 | See Source »

...such demonstrations are not totally effective. Terrorists travel around Europe as easily as tourists nowadays, and they have already shown that they can obtain missiles. Raiding an apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away. The apartment had been rented by a 23-year-old Arab who carried Lebanese and Jordanian passports. He and four accomplices arrested later in Rome were suspected of planning to attack an El Al jetliner as it flew low near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Halt! Who Flies There? | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...gotten to the point where the once perennial doormats of the division can knock off the supposed powerhouses...and can say that it wasn't a fluke. This year more than ever the "haves" are being beaten by the "have-nots...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

...scene bore a strong resemblance to an old Peter Sellers movie. A lone guard answers a knock at the Fogg Art Museum door. The time: 12:30 a.m. Sunday. A man wearing a beige trench coat identifies himself as "Mr. Ryan," and says he was told to pick up a package left earlier...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: Coin Heist: A Drama In Three Acts | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

Navy appears to be the weakest of the four top teams, so a loss today would probably knock Harvard out of contention for the title...

Author: By Richard A. Samp, | Title: Racquetmen Face Navy in Key Match | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

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