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...interpreted by the late Chief Justice Fred Vinson, the First Amendment to the Constitution is based on the theory that "speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda," and free debate will be a bulwark against tyranny. Just what Kelley Iser has to add to that debate is not clear at first glance. Kelley is a California nightclub dancer whose specialty was described by police as "30 seconds of wiggling around on her hands and knees with her breasts exposed." Yet the California Supreme Court has just ruled that Kelley's top less dance is entitled to First Amendment...
...statistics that Nixon used, matched against figures marshaled by the Administration to rebut him, added to the mystification of the layman. But close examination suggests that Nixon was being less than responsible in playing a nuclear numbers game...
...Washington, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford set out to rebut Nixon. For example, Nixon said that the U.S. had enjoyed a 50% lead over the Soviet Union in intercontinental ballistic missiles in 1960 but was now only marginally ahead. In 1960, the U.S. had all of ten operational long-range missiles, compared with five for the Russians. The U.S. now has 1,054 iCBMs, compared with about 900 for the Russians. In all categories of nuclear weapons, Clifford also pointed out, the U.S. has 4,200 compared with 1,200 for the Russians...
...White said it in 1932 to rebut criticism of collegiate disorders, which then, as now, baffled many elders. His basic idea was that "youth should be radical...
Auto Persuasion. There was little Buckley could do to rebut the testimony of the victim, Jack Watkins, and one of Buckley's fellow kidnapers who cooperated with the prosecution. Watkins had been picked out apparently because as an ex-con he seemed more open to coercion. This is how the prosecution told the story: Buckley and another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When...