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...convention's 577 delegates. West Germans, who live in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, are more acutely conscious of Russia's armed presence beyond their borders than most Westerners. And their politicians are apt to blame the Soviet Union for the fact that, 20 years after V-E day, Germany remains divided...
Harried Justices. What the Justices were really bothered by was the court's difficult decision in Roth v. U.S. (1957), which held for the first time that obscenity is not protected by First Amendment guarantees of free speech. In Roth, which upheld a federal antiobscenity statute, the court classified obscenity as a kind of "non-speech" -no longer protected by the familiar test that bars only those words that carry a "clear and present danger" of inciting anti-social conduct. Roth also carefully declared: "Sex and obscenity are not synonymous." And in later cases, the court refused to censor...
...Conduct v. Thought. Having reached exactly that conclusion, Justice Brennan last week tried to push the Roth decision, which he also wrote, far closer to a manageable test of conduct rather than thought. At issue in the Ginzburg case were Eros, whose chef-d'oeuvre in the disputed edition was a color portfolio of a white woman and Negro man, both naked, in multiple embraces; Liaison, a sex-front "newsletter" that was a compendium of sex jokes; and The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, a Tucson woman's clinical account of her increased pleasure with unconventional...
That made the finals a case of the missile v. the computer, the Rocket's violent volleys against the subtle shotmaking of Rosewall. Pinking the sideline markers with precision, forcing Laver to weave back and forth across the green like a wayward Agena, Rosewall pulled off an upset, winding up with a straight set victory of 6-3, 6-3. "Just a shot here and there," he said in gentlemanly fashion. "Besides, Laver missed more than he usually does...
...William V. Hogan (D-Everett), a former state commander of the American Legion, led the debate against Harrington's attempt to resurrect the bill. Last night he said, "I see nothing with the oath. We take it in government. What's wrong with a teacher, entrusted with youth, taking...