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FAIR TRADE has been killed by Supreme Court of Kansas, 17th state to outlaw price-fixing by manufacturers...
...season's best children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost Wasn't ("This was the gruesome, grimsome guard/That ruled the land under Evilard/And decided to outlaw Christmas"), and Phyllis McGinley in The Year without a Santa Claus ("Headlines screamed/Wires went humming./Santa says 'Too tired'/Not coming...
First in the nation, the New York City Council voted 20 to 1 last week to outlaw race restrictions in New York City private housing.* Effective next April, 1,787,000 nonrestricted apartments will be available to all tenants and buyers; landlords and owners who refuse to rent or sell to Negroes, Jews, Puerto Ricans or other minority groups will have to face complex "conciliation" hearings before a newly created Fair Housing Practices Panel, backed up by the threat of city-obtained court orders to enforce compliance with the law. Exempted: one-or two-family houses, unless they are part...
...compiled source material. The piece by Richard L. Evans and Kenneth S. Bennion on "The Mormoms" is possibly the best very short history of the early church. James D. Horan in his "The Gunmen" has the good sense to know that the "Wild Bunch" was the fiercest Western outlaw gang and to spend his time relating their story but he makes factual mistakes in the story of this magnificent group, who died under attack by a whole company of Infantry...
...more commonly called "Cops and Robbers." When asked what is responsible for his own interest in the criminal mind, he replies with refreshingly characteristic frankness: "I suppose my primary interest in crime is the sublimation of aggression; to vicariously participate in violence without feeling guilt. Also, of course, the outlaw has as much attractiveness to me as to the rest of American culture." He adds with his engaging smile, "I liked aggressive sports when I was at Stanford: I played soccer, football and coached boxing...