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...Supreme Court Justices were broadly agreed that the Constitution does not prohibit private individuals from forming "allwhite, all-black, all-brown and all-yellow clubs." The issue was whether Pennsylvania, by issuing a liquor license to the lodge, was illegally supporting discrimination through state action. Justices Brennan, Douglas and Marshall said it was, since the state issues only a limited number of liquor licenses which it uses to regulate record keeping, physical conditions and even behavior on the premises. Justice Rehnquist, writing for the 6 to 3 majority, disagreed. He declared that the court should not "utterly emasculate the distinction...
Legalizing. Many state laws not only permit the use of corporal punishment in the schools, but appear to prohibit local school boards from banning it, and eight states, including Michigan and Virginia, have enacted statutes since 1958 explicitly legalizing the practice. Both parents and teachers seem to approve: a 1970 Gallup poll reported that 62% of parents queried believed in modest use of physical punishment, and a 1969 National Education Association poll found that 65% of elementary teachers favored the "judicious use" of physical punishment in the classroom...
...complaint is not unexpected. The Food and Drug Administration has been looking into drug efficacy since 1962 and has found that a number of preparations do not meet their manufacturers' claims. But the commission's remedy is dramatic. Its proposed order would prohibit any further misrepresentation and require disclosure in advertising of the presence of aspirin or caffeine, which could worsen the condition of some patients. Penance for past sins would be even stiffer. In a drastic application of the "truth-in-advertising" doctrine, the FTC wants drug companies to devote 25% of their advertising expenditures during...
...Nixon's proposed busing moratorium raises troubling questions for the nation's educators. Since 1954 they have been guided by the U.S. Supreme Court's historic ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Last month, amid the latest uproar over busing, Nixon proposed that Congress prohibit new busing and concentrate $2.5 billion on improving inferior schools. Apart from constitutional dilemmas, the Nixon stand immediately reopened two hard questions...
...prime-time shows from independent producers. But the FCC ban on financial interests in these outside productions has never really been effective, and even if it had, the networks could still retain interests in productions that were created before the agency ruled. The suits sought to prohibit all "ownership interests," claiming that they applied in substantially more than half the prime-time shows broadcast by the networks. Oddly, the suits cited out-of-date ownership figures from the decade 1957-67 to support that claim...