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Three different congressional subcommittees are investigating various aspects of America's threatened privacy. One, headed by Senator Edward V. Long of Missouri, has energetically probed the extraordinary amount of wiretapping and bugging done by the Government's own agencies; another is headed by Senator Samuel J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, who is chiefly concerned with the intrusion on personal rights posed by psychological testings (sample true-false statements on a common questionnaire: "I brood a great deal. I have never indulged in any unusual sex practices...
...biggest legal milestone in this field was last year's Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which overthrew the state's law against the use of contraceptives as an invasion of marital privacy, and for the first time declared the "right of privacy" to be derived from the Constitution itself. Justice Douglas argued that "specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras formed by emanations from those guarantees. Various guarantees create zones of privacy." Such zones, he argued, emanate from the First Amendment's right of association, and the Fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable...
Well, not entirely, Leo. The dome may be an elaborate Bronx cheer for visitors, and it is true the Astros do considerably better at home (25 wins in 40 games v. 14 of 35 on the road this year). It is truer still that while the Mets set out to draw crowds with familiar-and fading-names, the Astros are starting to cash in on the richest crop of youthful talent in the majors...
...cities where telephone demands were bigger. The country was largely left to the independents, who sometimes strung their wire along fences and made the party line famous. Now the independents turn out to have good growth areas and their revenues have been increasing an average of 11% annually v. 7.6% for Bell...
...Connecticut Turnpike. Performances tend to begin promptly at the designated hour. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers.) final scene, when Falstaff appears with a saffron cloth tied on his stick to hail and cheer the prince-becomeking, only to be banished in return by the just-crowned Henry V, Kilty's facial expression and slow lowering of the stick and hands are deeply touching...