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THREE YEARS ago, Dr. Benjamin Spock was a defendant in the first conspiracy trial involving protesters against the war. Today he remains gleefully absorbed in urging political dissent...
Interviewed in Boston on April 15, Spock is currently stumping American colleges and universities on behalf of the Civil Liberties Legal Defense Fund (no relation to the Civil Liberties Union...
...Former Army Intelligence Agent Ralph M. Stein said that the Army had collected personal data on a wide number of notable Americans, including the late Martin Luther King, the late Whitney Young, Singers Joan Baez and Arlo Guthrie, Georgia State Representative Julian Bond, Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
What do Charles Manson, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Billie Sol Estes, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Scale, various General Electric executives and numerous Mafia members have in common? They have all been accused or convicted of conspiracy, the most elusive crime on the books. The crime can be little more than an intention: an agreement between two or more people to do something illegal. Federal law and many state laws add the stipulation that at least one conspirator take an overt step, not necessarily an illegal one. But so sprawling and elastic is the legal conception that the late Judge Learned...
Without realizing it, many American mothers, under the aegis of benevolent permissiveness and the pressure of civic obligations, actually neglect their children (see box). Others, imbued by Dr. Spock with the notion that every child has a unique potential and that it is her mission to create a near-perfect being, become the child's shadow, with equally damaging results, according to Brandeis Sociologist Philip Slater. The child soon recognizes that he is the center of an extraordinary effort and that his happiness is a matter of great stakes. He will seldom turn out exactly as planned, and when family...