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...Miami, Mrs. Mary Louise Patterson, 38, mother of six, was being sentenced in a misdemeanor assault case. She explained that at 315 Ibs. she was too fat to work. The judge put her on probation for three years on condition that she lose 3 Ibs. a week under a supervised diet until she had dropped 65 Ibs. If she falls off the diet, she could go to jail. Mrs. Patterson accepted her sentence happily, saying, "Oh good. Now I'll finally lose weight...
...years, New York decided to crack down this spring. Lawmen have been told that they may now board a boat without a warrant to ascertain whether it has an approved toilet. Operating a nonapproved toilet (or-as the law now reads-even being seasick over the side) is a misdemeanor that carries a $100 fine or 60 days in jail, or both...
...continued to visit congressmen and senators, the draft building demonstratorslay face down in front of the main entrance, forming what they termed a "carpet of bodies" to symbolize war dead and telling arriving employees they could enter only by walking over them. Most of those arrested were charged on misdemeanor counts of obstructing a public building...
...Critical Misdemeanor. Mailer's major foe is Kate Millett, whose book Sexual Politics devotes some 25 pages to mauling him, and helped prompt the Harper's riposte. Kate loses many a battle with Mailer in the article before she winds up winning the war. "By any major literary perspective." says a scornful Mailer, "the land of Millett is a barren and mediocre terrain, its flora reminiscent of a Ph.D. tract, its roads a narrow argument, and its horizon low." Kate is "nothing if not a pug-nosed wit," and "the yaws of her distortion were nicely hidden...
...himself. He accuses her of judging Miller by contemporary standards, and not as a "wandering troubador of the Twenties," when "one followed the line of one's sexual impulse without a backward look at what was moral, responsible or remotely desirable for society." Millett's "critical misdemeanor" with Lawrence is treating him out of sequence "to conceal the pilgrimage, hide the life, cover over that emotional odyssey which took him from adoration of the woman to outright lust for her murder, then took him back to worship her beauty, even her procreative beauty...