Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight began last March, when United Artists mailed 2,268 postcard reproductions of the painting to editors, film and record distributors as a promotion stunt for a film about Goya and his great and good friend, the Duchess of Alba, supposedly the model for The Maja. The Post Office took one look, pronounced them obscene and seized them...
Delighted that an ordinary publicity stunt had been blown up into a national sensation, United Artists fought the case. In a hearing last April, Post Office Examiner William A. Duvall upheld the ban. The Goya original, he conceded, "is a masterpiece, [and] nudity is not obscene." But Duvall argued that United Artists had sent out a poor reproduction. Said he: "It is a copy of a photograph which does not accurately depict that which it purports to show ... It is simply a color picture of a nude woman...
...film company appealed the decision. Last week, answering the suit, the Justice Department completely scuttled the Post Office Department's case by admitting that "the postal cards at issue are neither obscene, lewd, lascivious nor filthy." United Artists has only to go to court and ask that the case be thrown out-a request no judge could deny...
Outside Conservative Party headquarters in London's Smith Square, jubilant crowds stumbled over TV cables and shouted noisily at each new bulletin heralding the election of yet another Tory M.P. At 1:25 a.m., long after the Laborites at their glum command post across the square had conceded defeat in Britain's 1959 general election, an elegant, grey-haired figure in evening dress stepped from a sedan to a surge of Tory cheers. "Well done, Mac," shouted voices. "You did it!" The tall, patrician-looking man paused for a moment, his handsome wife in blue evening gown...
...responsible for the cohesion and discipline of Tory M.P.s, quiet, determined Ted Heath performed near miracles by his firm but gentle enforcement of party loyalty during the Suez crisis. Widely considered the personification of Tory good sense and good manners, he is likely to be rewarded with a Cabinet post-perhaps the Ministry of Labor, if Iain Macleod moves...