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...amendments to the obscenity statute--Chapter 272, Section 28 of the General Laws of Massachusetts--appeared before the Watch and Ward moved on to another sphere of activity. The Society now concerns itself chiefly with crime in general, and with pornographic advertisements. Only six percent of its activities are devoted to literature...
...Committee has advised that over 250 pocket books, comic books, and lurid magazines be withdrawn from the shelves, or at least withheld from persons under 18 years of ago. At first, members concentrated chiefly on pocket editions--the 25 cent variety. Lately, however, it has moved into the sphere of the comic books and has banned such magazines as "Wink" and "Whisper...
...Interior, a Westerner was almost inevitable since Interior's most important sphere of action is in the West (power development, conservation, etc.). An early possibility was Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado. Eisenhower advisers remembered the feud between Colorado and Arizona and California over division of the Colorado River water, advised against a Colorado man. Ike chose Oregon's Governor Douglas McKay, whom he had met during his campaign in the Northwest and liked for his independence and common sense...
...American empire of 2002 would, like Augustus' Roman Empire, make great use of what Toynbee called "constitutional fictions." The U.S. once overlorded it over Latin America with a big stick, Toynbee says, but learned better. "The states of Europe and Asia within the U.S. sphere of influence are going to be as touchy as the Latin American states, and the U.S. is likely to handle them by a diplomatic technique that she has learned from her Latin American experience...
...Living in a 200-year-old, thatched-roof farmhouse near Tokyo, Noguchi started spreading his modern ideas with lots of help from his wife. Earlier, he had turned out abstract designs for the railings on two new bridges for Hiroshima: one was a sweeping single line with a half sphere rising at each end; the other, shaped like a long, low boat. In both, Noguchi wanted to symbolize the city leaving the past for a new and better life. But the symbolism was lost on most Japanese. "The A-bomb," said one, "wasn't abstract, you know...