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...book for obscenity. But that is just about what the English firm of Calder & Boyars did early this year. The book was Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, which had been banned in London's Soho district (TIME, Dec. 30). Under English custom, such local rulings tend to be honored throughout the country. Calder & Boyars decided that the only way to lift the ban was a full-scale trial, and the government finally agreed to prosecute. Said Publisher John Calder: "I'm sure we'll win before a jury...
...competition between the networks too brutal to drop them. Walter Cronkite thinks they may bring about a "general revulsion" against war, which may be too much to expect, since they by no means tell the whole story of Viet Nam. But even in their fragmentary form, they tend to discomfit the stay-at-homes...
...policies, expanding them in order to ensure broader representation of artists from outside New York City. "There's a bubbling over of creative energy in every direction today," he says, "and the injection of new talent and new movements gets more frenetic all the time. However, new movements tend to overshadow artists doing good work in older styles, and that's why it is important to maintain a catholic point of view. It isn't the movement that counts as much as the individual painter...
Government Regulation. Statistical projections tend to bear Davis out. Even in the U.S., representative of literate industrial nations where birth control has become a byword, the predicted average annual population-growth rate is averaging 1.3%. Present projections put the U.S. population at 308 million by the year 2000, 374 million by 2015. World population now stands at 3.4 billion. At its present annual growth rate-about 1.8%-it will nearly double by A.D. 2000. By 2050 it will be 15 billion. Even if world population growth were brought into line with the present U.S. rate, it would still double...
Willing as they are to go into debt as consumers, as voters Americans tend to pinch pennies. Just a year ago, in an atmosphere of general uneasiness over inflation and rising interest rates, they voted down fully half of the $2.3 billion in proposed public-bond issues that were on the ballot across the nation. Not this year. Facing a staggering $3.5 billion in bond proposals at the polls last week-second highest total in U.S. history-voters enthusiastically turned thumbs...