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After deciding that the public-accommodations section was constitutional, the Supreme Court turned to a less significant but more nettlesome legal problem: Could the thousands of sit-in demonstrators who had invaded the South's segregated lunch counters and been convicted under valid state antitrespass laws still be punished for acts that are now undeniably legal? The question split the court's earlier unanimity...
...this free speech was unprecedented in Supreme Soviet debates, and Kosygin himself seemed carried away, admitting that some of the criticism was valid. "Mistakes are made," he confessed, adding with masterful and no doubt unintentional understatement: "The structure of the apparatus is sometimes cumbersome...
Future Decision. Justice White's opinion left intact, for now, "what is claimed to be a valid ban on interracial marriage." Though concurring, Justice Potter Stewart sharply protested what he called the court's implication that such a law might be valid if the state could show "some overriding statutory purpose." Said Stewart: "I think it is simply not possible for a state law to be valid under our Constitution which makes the criminality of an act depend on the race of the actor." Although the majority stuck to the limits of the specific case before...
...book as a nice, slightly baffled man, who can appreciate a sunset, deplore the dehumanization of our modern environment, and feel real concern about man's fate. It's too bad that his book contains so much hystericism, so many contradictions, that readers will probably dismiss even his valid observations...
...delinquents are mostly dullards, victims of no specific evil unless it be that handy malaise compounded of restlessness, lack of love, excessive materialism and the Bomb. A valid set of anxieties, which current moviemakers sometimes stuff into the places where they used to put plot...