Word: sinclair
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Anyone would think Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 51, was a male chauvinist or something, to listen to Helen Gurley Brown, 49. Asked on a Canadian television show what she thought of Trudeau's recent marriage to 22-year-old Margaret Sinclair, the sexpert editor (Cosmopolitan) and author (Sex and the Single Girl, etc.) used the unminced word "outrageous." Said Mrs. Brown: "What I think your Prime Minister has done is set back the cause of a certain kind of equality for a long, long time. I think the idea that you must go and pick...
...well-meaning arguments for doing away with it all, it is easy to forget the crimes against political freedom, science and the arts that have been committed in the name of morality. Books by Aristophanes, Defoe, Rousseau and Voltaire have been seized by U.S. customs, and Hemingway, Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis were once banned in Boston. Such past errors certainly do not constitute a conclusive argument against censorship, but they do underline one fact: no apparatus of censorship has ever been devised, or probably can be devised, subtle enough to assure the freedom of the arts or of ideas...
...current marijuana legislation is not a joke. Dope laws are used selectively to punish political "criminals" like John Sinclair, a White Panther leader who has been locked away for several years on a very minor marijuana offense. The New York Times reports the suicide during a bust of an Alabama student who faced jail on a second marijuana offense. Sitting in our dorms it is often difficult to remember that thousands of other Americans are sitting in jail for committing the "crime" of getting stoned with their friends...
Married. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 51, Prime Minister of Canada: and Margaret Sinclair, 22, daughter of Canadian Privy Councillor James Sinclair (see THE WORLD...
...Holland, Mich. Holder of a Ph.D. in microbiology but no medical degree, De Kruif developed an antitoxin for gas gangrene, helped produce a successful treatment for syphilis before penicillin was used. He wrote 13 books, among them the bestsellers Hunger Fighters and Microbe Hunters. He also collaborated with Sinclair Lewis on Arrowsmith, which dealt with a onetime country doctor. Answering whispers that he had ghosted the book for Lewis, De Kruif said: "This is wrong. But Lewis would have been completely helpless to write it without me, and vice versa...