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...begun to move away from its strictly legal approach. In the past, the A.C.L.U. had generally entered a civil liberties case by filing a brief as amicus curiae (friend of the court). In 1968 the organization turned to more direct action; its attorneys served as defense lawyers in the Spock conspiracy trial. In the face of internal disagreement, A.C.L.U. activists convinced colleagues that the new course was the only realistic response to a prosecution that attacked free speech...
TODAY'S ENGLISH VERSION (1966). A translation of the New Testament in basic, pared-down language; from the American Bible Society. Its distribution of 50 million copies surpasses Dr. Spock. Full Bible...
Manchester gives decent journalistic summaries of issues like McCarthyism in the '50s, civil rights in the '60s and Viet Nam. A recurrent device labeled "Portrait of an American" allows him to draw vignettes of his favorite fellow countrymen: Ralph Nader, Dr. Benjamin Spock and, perhaps above all, Norman Thomas ("He was the American Isaiah"). But the Manchester method of history may finally be described as stream-of-schlock, often fascinating though sometimes overwhelming. Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version...
Samuelson and Wald faulted Clark for his performance as attorney general from 1967 through 1969 because of his initiation of legal proceedings against Dr. Benjamin Spock. But they said Clark has emerged as a "humanely decent man" and that his positive attributes are more important than his mistakes as attorney general...
...misuse of the courts, the attorney-general's office, and so forth. Political persecutions. Indictments would be started, trials would be carried out even though the chances of conviction were non-existent, or if convictions were achieved reversal was a certainty afterwards--I'm referring to the Spock trial, or the Ellsberg trial, the Ellsberg trial was a continuation of these things. All these cases are political. We all know that the Ellsberg trial was an attempt by the White House to discredit Ellsberg, or else to persecute him whether they got a conviction or not. Tying somebody...