Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevadans have always clung to mildly iconoclastic notions about what is and what isn't a vice. Gambling is legal in Nevada; everybody knows that. Less well known is the fact that prostitution is also tolerated in 15 out of the state's 17 counties.* In such communities as Elko, Esmeralda and Nye, the brothel is practically an institution, like the corner drugstore and the county courthouse. Overall, one involved Nevadan opines, there are 30 to 40 brothels, with seven to ten girls apiece, in the 15 permissive counties. The opulence (or lack of it) of these industries...
...make Oh! Calcutta! the highest-priced show on or off Broadway. With more than $103,000 in advance sales already made, Hillard Elkins is living the producer's dream-which is not to give a four-letter word about the critics' reviews. Less than five years ago, legal obstacles and moral outcries would have prevented Elkins from even opening the show, but none have currently been raised...
Burger also questioned the practice of barring from court evidence obtained in violation of a law or a constitutional right (such as that gained by illegal wiretap). And he accused defense lawyers of "clogging the system by an excess of zeal" when they use every available legal means to clear their client...
...relationship that would destroy the only evidence on which her plea rests: her virginity. A woman married her brother-in-law after her husband was declared dead in World War II and bore her second spouse two children. When the first husband reappeared unexpectedly, he became not only her legal husband again -the second marriage was invalidated -but also, under Italian law, the father of the children. The family decided to live together in a cozy menage a trois in which the woman was married to the first man, a legless veteran, but cohabited with the second...
...when a loan company sought to begin recovery of a debt from Christine Sniadach of Milwaukee by taking $31.59 from her $65 weekly pay, she ap pealed to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for help. Wisconsin's garnishment statute, similar to those in 16 other states, allows a creditor to tie up as much as 50% of a salary earner's wages even before a debt has been proved. Often, far more than a weekly bite is involved; the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that employers fire between 100,000 and 300,000 workers each year...