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...Release. The change in his own view was manifest. In June 1966, after the U.S. attacked oil dumps around Hanoi and Haiphong, McNamara predicted "a lower ceiling on the number of men that can be supported in the South." By the following January, he was telling Congress: "I don't believe that the bombing up to the present has significantly reduced-nor any bombing that I could contemplate in the future would seriously reduce-the actual flow of men and materiel to the South...
Mueller's tally was a work of art. Mark stickhandled through the B.U. defense and passed back to Smith at the point. Smith skimmed the puck in to Mueller, who picked up the goal's lower left corner with a deadeye shot from six feet...
Although the facts may be debated, the issues are clear enough. Cambridge officials have attempted to restrain future issues of Avatar on the basis of a lower court decision which found one past issue obscene. A decision which affects a single issue does not apply to a whole string of future issues, and in applying one decision to several issues the officials have violated Avatar's constitutional rights. The Boston decision applies only to the eleventh issue; the twelfth and thirteenth issues of Avatar have not been declared obscene by any court...
Judged by Supreme Court tests these issues of Avatar are not obscene. Whether the lower courts will apply those tests is another question. In the recent Boston trial Judge Elijah Adlow denounced "the casuistry of the higher courts"' in obscuring the definition of obscenity. On the basis of a single article Adlow declared Avatar obscene. To ask him to read the entire issue, he joked lamely, would be "cruel and abusive punishment." The problem of determining contemporary community standards didn't puzzle the Judge at all, simply because he didn't even consider it. "I consider myself a broad-minded...
...first line of Parrot-Garrity-Fredo accounted for the visitors' 3-0 first-period margin. Captain Jack took the puck on his own blue line, skated down left wing, turned the corner on the Huskies' sophomore defenseman, and hit the goal's lower right corner...