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...Hefner's editorial is a rambling bunny hop through the fields of Puritanism and Prohibition, Freud and Free Love, Capitalism and Communism. But deep in his turgid rhetoric, he actually does take a crack at answering the charge of obscenity. "Who can define the word?" he asks. Lest anyone can, he adds the thought that "a serious school of scientific opinion believes that obscenity actually makes a valuable contribution to the mental health of society...
...wrath or ridicule, he tends to retreat to "safe" positions. By such faculty flinching, everyone is cheated. Who knows what the world loses, wrote John Stuart Mill, in "the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral"-or subversive or even Philistine...
...bear responsibility for breaking off the talks, Pakistan reluctantly agreed to another meeting later this month in New Delhi. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, due in Karachi for a meeting of the CENTO nations, would be taking time out to urge a Kashmir settlement on the Pakistanis. Lest he appear partial, Rusk would also carry his appeal to New Delhi this week, where he is due to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Nehru...
...Lest the tumbrels gleam too bloody...
...Lest someone regard that representation seriously I would appreciate your publishing the following corrections...