Word: superior
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...said an astonished Pentagon man. Saw what? The letter to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 48, that read: "I have been in the Reserve and National Guard at various times for the past 34 years, and I must say that of the two, the Guard training is by far superior. I think your move incorporating the Reserve and the Guard is a just one." It was signed: "With best personal wishes, Barry Goldwater," whose major general's rank in the Air Force Reserve may eventually go on the shelf as a result of McNamara's decision...
Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons and Suffolk County Superior Court disagreed last year over whether or not the eighteenth century novel is "obscene, impure, and indecent." The decision in this appeal will be an important one for Fanny's fate across the country...
...docket will be the appeal of G. P. Putnam's Sons, publisher of the contested edition, in Edward W. Brooke (Attorney General) v. A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (Commonly Known as Fanny Hill). Justice Donald M. Macaulay of the Massachusetts Superior Court finally ruled on Sept. 22 that "this book is utterly without redeeming social importance in the fields of art, literature, science, news or ideas of any social importance and that it is obscene, indecent and impure...
...with marked restraint and set out for the Courtroom in early February with the half-hearted assertion that "it is at least an arguable issue" that the book should be banned. But it didn't take much work to convince the Courts; Justice Eugene A. Hudson of Suffolk County Superior Court read Fanny and promptly issued an "order of notice" that "there is reasonable cause to believe that (Fanny Hill) is obscene, indecent, and impure." On March 19, Putnam's answered the order and made it clear that it intended to fight Massachusetts on the issue. Putnam's president Walter...
Fanny and the Commonwealth met head on before Justice Macaulay on May 27 in Suffolk County Superior Court. A full day of testimony saw Assistant Attorney General John E. Sullivan call but one witness, as the publisher enlisted the assistance of five Massachusetts English experts, including John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English and Master of Quincy House...