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...dullest term in 14 years. At first glance, the new docket promises few blockbuster decisions, such as those that banned public-school prayers in 1963 and curbed confessions last June. Yet the Warren court is hardly preparing to go out of business. Last week it faced requests to review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work, the court begins hearing oral arguments in three cases that will plunge it right back into a familiar miasma-obscenity...
None of the obscenity cases promises to answer lower-court prayers for clarification of last term's Ginzburg decision. But two may clarify the doctrine of scienter (to know), the requirement that a smut seller must have "guilty knowledge" that his wares are obscene before he is criminally liable. In a New York case, Times Square Bookstore Clerk Robert Redrup was convicted of selling paperbacks titled Lust Pool and Shame Agent to a plainclothes cop who asked him why he sold such "garbage." Said Redrup: "There's worse stuff around." Redrup argues that his comment failed to prove...
...kinds of rewards tend to classify a man in his own mind," he explained, adding that low grades can lower a student's opinion of himself...
...last year, drains pharmaceutical advertising from tax-paying Medical Economics and Medical World News; by running ads for such products as soft drinks, margarine and soap, it also competes with general-circulation magazines. Thanks in large part to its tax-exempt status, the National Geographic is able to offer lower advertising rates than its competitors, Holiday and Venture. Much of this untaxed income, to be sure, is plowed back into exploration and research that are not always written up in the magazine. Still, Geographic's competitors insist that the deal is unfair...
...more simple errors: when Hamlet says, "But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue," the image shows his hairline, and drops to his face only as an after-thought; then, when horsemen are galloping through the Pampas, one of those frame-corners Kozintzev has been ignoring (the lower left one) picks up the highway the camera's trucking along...