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...answer." By that he meant that until now most discrimination cases, conditional upon some governmental action, have been decided on the 14th Amendment due process and equal protection clauses, rather than on 13th Amendment grounds. The decision in the Virginia cases, when it comes, is likely to be a landmark, since, particularly in the South, segregated private schools have burgeoned as a response to the increasing desegregation of public schools...
...remedy was prescribed last week in a 7-1 landmark decision by the Supreme Court that lifted blanket bans on advertising prescription-drug prices. As part of its ruling, the court also made clear for the first time that the free flow of commercial information is generally protected by the First Amendment so long as the information is truthful and legitimate. Wrote Justice Harry Blackmun for the majority: "Advertising, however tasteless and excessive it may seem, is nonetheless dissemination of information...
...town security and Manhattan-on-the-rock sophistication. Its appeal is mostly to young families who might otherwise head for the suburbs. Cars are banned from its winding Main Street (though electric minibuses run around the clock). Dogs are verboten. Old trees have been spared, eyesores torn down, and landmark buildings preserved-including the oldest wooden farmhouse in New York County, an octagonal tower that drew Charles Dickens' admiration, a lighthouse and a Victorian chapel that has become a community center. An infamous old prison has long since been demolished, leaving only the legends of its two most illustrious...
...deliberation, a federal grand jury last week took action in Virginia's notorious Kepone scandal, in which 70 people involved in the production of the pesticide were poisoned and the James River was polluted by the substance (TIME, Feb. 2). In what may well prove to be a landmark action, the jury indicted a chemical company, the owners of another chemical firm and the city of Hopewell, Va., on a record number of charges of violating federal antipollution laws...
Some civil rights spokesmen were quick to hail the decision as a landmark in the long fight to get the suburbs to share in solving the problems of the cities they surround. Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the finding "historic, bold and necessary to halt the constitutional movement in this country toward apartheid. " But other leaders of minorities, noting the extremely limited nature of the precedent and knowing the long court battles that almost certainly lay ahead, were much more guarded. "I'm pleased...