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...Bureaucratic Mercy. Editors are concerned at this possibility and so is the U.S. Senate's leading libertarian, Sam Ervin Jr. of North Carolina (TIME, March 8). A Southern conservative politically, Ervin has made a personal crusade of defending individual freedoms from Government encroachment. Last week, in the first of a series of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings, Chairman Ervin and his colleagues heard the testimony of a parade of communications executives and experts...
...week Justice John Marshall Harlan, 72, resigned because of severe illness only six days after the resignation of Justice Hugo L. Black, 85, who died last week in Bethesda Naval Hospital from the effects of a stroke. With Black's death, the court lost its most eminent civil libertarian and a Justice who, more than any other, had influenced its liberal course under Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...obtain their pleasure without paying for it. Now that we have the Pill, the coed dorm and the commune, what need is there for the streetwalker, much less the bordello? So far, though, these predictions have not come true; even in societies that have long been considerably more libertarian than ours, somehow the appeal of prostitution stubbornly remains. In emancipated Sweden, where premarital sex is considered a civil right, there are very few streetwalkers nowadays, but Stockholm still has hundreds of massage parlors, modeling studios and other such institutions...
...dizzying diversity of views and opinions that perhaps only the Times, with its great prestige, could bring together. Regular Columnists James Reston, C.L. Sulzberger, Russell Baker and Tom Wicker share the space with outside contributors, who differ widely in political philosophy (from New Leftist Herbert Marcuse to Right Wing Libertarian Murray Rothbard) and in personality (from Burma's ascetic rebel U Nu to baseball's syntax-smashing Casey Stengel...
Died. Igor Tamm, 75, physicist and a leading libertarian within Soviet science; in Moscow. A critic of Kremlin attempts to police the scientific community, Tamm never joined the Communist Party. In 1958 he shared the Nobel Prize with two Soviet colleagues for discovering and explaining the "Cherenkov effect," the bluish glow that occurs when high-energy electrons pass through a transparent substance. Tamm's prominence among Russian theoretical physicists was based largely on his work blending quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity...