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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressional approval of the Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system. Democrat Acheson, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze and Albert Wohlstetter, a nuclear-war strategist at the University of Chicago, announced that they were forming a bipartisan group of scientists, professors and former public officials called the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy...
...house in 1914 for only $6,600 and lived there for the first six years of their marriage; the Kennedy family repurchased the house in 1966 for $55,000. It was designated a national historic site by Congress in 1967. The house is to be open to the public daily, which will assure a permanent addition to the ubiquitous Kennedy legend. Some of the original furnishings are on display -including John Kennedy's bassinet, the silver bowl and spoon he used as a child, and two of the favorite books of his boyhood: King Arthur and His Knights...
...past several months, any Dane over 16 has been able to indulge his appetite for pornography to his limit-in books, films and still pictures that display everything from conventional copulation to group sex. Judging by what all this permissiveness has done to the pornography business, the effect on public morals in Denmark has been downright socially redeeming...
...assumption behind his bill. When they are freely available, he believes, "pornographic books and pictures very quickly become boring and distasteful to adults with a normal sexual life." He is backed up by a four-member professional commission that spent two years studying the subject. The public's interest in pornography, he maintains, is mostly "the result of curiosity about what is forbidden...
Much of this was conscious baiting, but even more of it was an expression of frustration at endless stories and reports followed by little or no action. As LIFE's Jack Rosenthal noted, "The frustration is not so much with the press as with the public, which doesn't respond. There is a natural tendency to blame the messenger for failure to get the message across." Some reporters refused to be drawn into the arguments. "I refuse to bore you with my opinions," Bill Buckley remarked imperiously to one hostile audience. But the continual hostility brought out occasional...