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After a U.S. appeals court upheld their convictions last January, the Redmonds appealed to the Supreme Court on the ground that "receipt of obscenity for personal use" has never before been labeled a crime under the socalled Comstock Statute (Title 18, Section 1461, U.S. Code), which is now 94 years old. That statute, argued the Redmonds' lawyers, was "directed solely at those engaged in the dissemination of obscenity to others." To apply it to private recipients, who "obviously outnumber disseminators many times over," would involve the Government in enormous enforcement problems...
...With the receipt of the recall list, the Ribicoff subcommittee had all but finished its job. But the commotion about auto safety continued, with some of the criticism being aimed at targets well beyond Detroit. Author Ralph (Unsafe at Any Speed) Nader moved from the Capitol's Senate wing to the House side, testified before the House Commerce Committee and took a few shots at foreign cars. The Rolls-Royce, Critic Nader said, is "overpriced and overrated." Among other things, he complained, its door latches have an unpleasant habit of popping open on impact at as little...
...lady at the checking account window, however was baffled. She nervously handed Dillaway his receipt and looked away...
Dillaway pocketed the receipt and started to leave. Before he got two steps, two bank guards had cut him off and ordered, "Stay right here; don't move." Dillaway complied dazedly...
...Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue...