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When they were leaked to the press two months ago, some of the more libertarian conclusions of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography enraged those who fear that smut is polluting U.S. morals. Released officially and in full last week, the report of the panel's majority gave critics more to complain about than their wildest fantasies could have conjured up. Not only is pornography guiltless as a cause of crime, delinquency, deviance or emotional disturbance, said the majority, it can actually strengthen conjugal ties...
Chairman William B. Lockhart, dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, said that he had undertaken his study with no preconceived ideas and had not tried to "brainwash" the rest of the panel. It was clear that the minority was not intimidated. Charles Keating Jr., the only Nixon appointee on the commission-the rest, as the Administration had stressed, were named by Lyndon Johnson-branded the report "a declaration of moral bankruptcy," "the epitome of government-gone-berserk," and "a travesty preordained by the . . . prejudice of its chairman...
...Agnew asserted that "it's not our baby," and promised that "as long as Richard Nixon is President, Main Street is not going to turn into Smut Alley." Senator Thomas Dodd's Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency prepared to summon commission members for some sharp questioning about the panel's mandate. In the opinion of some angry Congressmen, the investigators had ignored their assigned tasks of defining obscenity and pornography, determining its effect on children, and proposing federal antismut laws. Other Congressmen began filling the hopper with the restrictive bills that had been held up awaiting completion...
...been brilliantly successful; in morals he has been a tragic failure." In an item entitled "Thank God for Music," Composer Jule Styne rhapsodizes: "Music reaches the lefts and the rights with the same good emotional impact." Matsushita, who spends several hours a month delivering his own thoughts to a panel of scribes, provides some "Notes for World Prosperity." Sample: "Peoples from every corner of the earth must get together to launch an Apollo of the spirit." Other contributors include Anne Smol, 8, of London, who offers 108 words on how she enjoyed being a brides maid at her auntie...
Trembly's statement backed up the testimony of policemen at a Senate hearing yesterday. "The groups we are dealing with today are not innocent, misinformed students," Sheriff Michael A, Amico of Erie County, New York, told the panel. "They know precisely what they are doing. Their ultimate goal is not reform, but revolution. They preach peace but practice violence on an ever-increasing level...