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...prove. For one thing, pornography has been a private enthusiasm, so that epochs of conservative outward rectitude, such as Victorian England, have produced lush undergrowths of erotica. And anyone who has ever attended a smoker with conservatives in, say, Prairie Village, Kansas, knows that the gusto for smut is nonpartisan. When he heard of the report, California Congressman John Rousselot, a conservative Republican, grumbled: "How did they determine it? I know they didn't interview...
Honor America Day in Washington on July 4 could prove a microcosm of the national encounter. Its sponsors conceived it as a nonpartisan happening, a patriotic family outing on a Disney scale. As an earnest of their neutral intentions, they enlisted Senator George McGovern and some other heroes of the war-protest movement. But the rally will be dominated by Evangelist Billy Graham, Comedian Bob Hope?both close friends of President Nixon's?and a 1967 Miss Teen-Age America finalist who will recite "I Speak for Democracy." To many, it appears to be aimed at implicit support...
...Samuel Witwer, got an advance look at Gardner's speech, he invited his guest to substitute the address originally scheduled or cancel the appearance. The remarks Gardner wanted to give, said Witwer, constituted a "very serious rebuke" to Richard Nixon and "might well have jeopardized" the delegates' nonpartisan work. Gardner returned to Washington, released his speech, which, of course, got far more attention than it would have if delivered as scheduled. Excerpts...
...General have asked the American Bar Association's Committee on the Federal Judiciary to pass on the qualifications of potential nominees. Variants of the so-called "Missouri plan" would give similar panels even more responsibility; a President could pick only from men selected during the panelists' theoretically nonpartisan deliberations. Yet the A.B.A. committee generally represents a narrow segment of successful lawyers, and it has never turned down a Supreme Court nominee. Most scholars argue that any such commission would be more likely than a President to rule out unconventional candidates...
...refusal of the federal government to accept aid (all it can get at this moment) from all relief agencies is deplorable. General Gowon's accusations against someone as nonpartisan and obviously humanitarian as Pope Paul is truly shocking and can only confirm suspicions that the federal government will, in fact, permit (by its inaction and inability to control its own troops) large-scale genocide...