Word: utah
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Republicans, who must make a gain of seven to control the Senate, are concentrating on Democratic-held seats in Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey, Indiana, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, North Dakota and New Mexico. In Maryland, where Democrat Joseph D. Tydings once seemed invulnerable, the Republicans also have a chance with J. Glenn Beall Jr. Tydings was renominated last week, but made a poor showing against George Mahoney, a nine-time loser...
...familiar politics of obscenity, it is taken for granted that speakers can jolt audiences with four-letter words. That notion may be premature. At the University of Utah last April, Black Militant Victor Gordon told the audience-students, local citizens, law-enforcement officials-that most Americans are too inhibited to utter the familiar earthy phrase that is a blunt description of a form of incest. Gordon invited the audience to join him in shouting the term at the count of three. With seemingly infantile glee, numerous people shouted away...
Gordon was duly arrested for violating Utah's obscenity statute, which makes it "unlawful for any person to willfully or knowingly sing or speak an obscene or lewd song, ballad or any other obscene or lewd words in any public place or in the presence of other persons." In response, the defendants filed suit in U.S. district court against the local prosecutor, charging that the Utah law was unconstitutional...
Last week a three-judge district court tossed out the suit. In a decision written by Chief Judge David T. Lewis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the court upheld the constitutionality of the Utah law and refused to intervene in the prosecutor's case against Gordon. Whether or not he is convicted, the decision makes it clear that any speaker faces arrest if he flaunts obscene words in public-at least in Utah...
...first glance, the 4-ft.-long, buff-colored fossilized log that Behunin discovered seemed not at all remarkable. It lay in a countryside of desert valleys in central Utah that 150 million years ago was a lush tropical shore along an inland sea, inhabited by huge flesh-eating dinosaurs. The area has thus yielded a rich supply of plant and animal fossils. Examining a specimen of the fossil under a microscope, Paleobotanist William D. Tidwell of Brigham Young University recognized the unmistakable cellular structure of the palm...