Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groin of the beholder." Though, as Rembar notes, there is virtually no such thing as obscenity in the literary legal lexicon today, the courts have insisted that minors should be protected from exposure to prurient material. And by federal law an individual may take action to prevent receipt of unsolicited pornography through the mail...
...part at least, last week's National Commitments resolution is the doves' belated atonement for the Tonkin measure, which received scarcely a critical glance when it passed Congress in 1964. For all the hope supporters had for it, the new resolution would not in itself prevent some future Tonkin vote. The Tonkin resolution, ironically, was just the kind of legislative approval that the Senators demanded last week...
...ambivalent, putting forward legislation that would ostensibly give farm workers organization rights but would also limit their use of strikes and boycotts. The Pentagon has substantially increased its grape orders for mess-hall tables, a move that Chavez and his followers countered last week by preparing a lawsuit to prevent such purchases on the ground that grapes are the subject of a labor dispute. Some auto-bumper stickers read: NIXON EATS GRAPES. The growers' answering slogan: EAT CALIFORNIA GRAPES...
...also reports that Jackie once sold an aquamarine from the Brazilian government and a diamond-clip wedding present from her father-in-law in order to buy a $6,160 antique sunburst pin she had seen in London. On another occasion, says Mrs. Gallagher, it took powerful persuasion to prevent Jackie from removing the diamonds in a sword given by Saudi Arabia's King Saud. The installment ends at Christmastime 1962, with Jackie embracing Mrs. Gallagher and telling her, "You know, you're my only friend in this impersonal White House. What would I ever do without...
...search warrant before a judge, wait to arrest a suspect at his home, then claim that the search is "incident to a valid arrest" and therefore legal. A 6-to-2 majority of the Justices disagreed. Police, they said, may search an arrested man's person and, to prevent him from destroying evidence, "the area within his reach." But if broader searches were permitted without a court warrant, they concluded, the Fourth Amendment privilege against unreasonable search would "approach the evaporation point...