Word: spock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal Grand Jury that indicted Dr. Benjamin Spock last month got him on the wrong conspiracy. "Conspiracy to encourage young men to violate the Selective Service Act?" Big deal. The real conspiracy involves his book--Baby and Child Care--the paperback manual that helped bring up nearly every one of today's young radicals and anti-war agitators...
...quite pleased to see that formal charges have finally been brought against the crusading Dr. Spock [Jan. 19]. However, I yas slightly confused as to the charge itself-conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act. Would it not seem more appropriate to indict him for enacting a huge fraud on the American public? After all, pretending to be an expert on baby care, when all the time his real prowess lay in deciding U.S. military policy, in evaluating the Selective Service System, and in setting foreign policy in general...
...discussing the Spock-Coffin indictment in your article about conspiracy you quoted me as saying that the Government "would like to paint the picture of a widespread agreement, and that may be a realistic portrayal of the situation." You omitted the word "not," thereby altering significantly the thrust of my statement. What I said was ". . . and that may not be a realistic portrayal of the situation...
...drink-liquid food, perhaps. In any event, the nonreading category consists of two main classes, the "how-to" and the "self-help." After the Bible, whose varied editions and vast sales are beyond specific reckoning, the top sellers of all time among all books (see box) are Dr. Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book...
Council for the Five includes James D. St. Clair for Coffin, Leonard B. Boudin for Spock, Monroe L. Inker for Goodman and Raskin, and William P. Homan '41 for Ferber. The prosecution was led by Paul F. Markham, A United States Attorney...