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Recently, in a decision that shakes the structure of the sport, Federal Judge Warren Ferguson declared that the four-year rule violates the Sherman Antitrust Act and that Haywood is free to play with Seattle. Already, in the aftermath of the ruling, there are indications of further tremors to come...
...Died. Sherman Mills Fairchild, 74, inventor and industrialist; in Manhattan. A college dropout (Harvard, University of Arizona, Columbia), Fairchild turned a knack for tinkering into an aviation and photographic empire. While at Harvard he invented a primitive flash camera; by 1918 he had developed one of the first between-the-lens shutters for aerial cameras. The need for an aircraft to use his cameras for aerial mapping led him into plane building, and in 1926 the fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed...
...strokes, were plagued by cold temperatures and extremely high winds. "We played horribly. After faltering on the first few holes because of the wind, we all blew up. The fact that Navy was used to its usually windy course didn't help us any," said captain Fred Sherman of the disappointing loss...
...Senate vote on the SST, proponents clung to a single hope, wispy as a contrail, of keeping the aircraft from crashing. Their head count showed 49 Senators against the plane, 47 for it, two absent and two wavering: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. If Richard Nixon could land those two Republicans, the SST might yet take off. Vice President Spiro Agnew stood ready to cast a tie-breaking vote to continue the aircraft's funding...
...prurient interest? What about "utterly without redeeming social importance"? Even if something is of value only to masochists, asks Justice Douglas, how can it be said to be utterly without social importance? Others argue, in effect, that no law is perfect; society must do the best it can. "The Sherman antitrust law forbids monopolies," says Political Scientist Reo Christenson. "What is a monopoly? What is an unfair trade practice? When is guilt proved beyond a reasonable doubt? Those indignant over the lack of specificity in obscenity laws are quite complacent about vagueness in laws they approve...