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...Vernon, Texas...
...least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed, Presley's lawyers and his father Vernon are seeking city permission to move the remains of Elvis and his mother for reburial behind the secure walls of the mansion in which Presley secluded himself-and finally died alone...
...does its cynical best to cash in on the popularity of Jimmy Carter. The action takes place around the police station of a small Georgia town, where the cracker sheriff (Victor French) must cope with a New York-trained black sergeant (Kene Holliday), a dumb racist deputy (Harvey Vernon) and a sex-crazed policewoman (Barbara Cason). There's also a politically ambitious mayor (Richard Paul) who looks like Bert Lance and, in the opening episode, an off-screen visit by the President himself. Surely Brother Billy will visit Carter Country before too long...
Bowdlerism is nothing new at American newspapers. Many dailies reject offensively prurient ads on a case-by-case basis, and some papers print them only after extensive doctoring. Vernon Johnston, advertising ombudsman of the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal, simply blacks out with his felt-tip pen any anatomical displays that trouble him. "They call me the mad brassiere artist," says he. Other papers have for years had policies banning or limiting adult-film advertising, among them the Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Miami Herald. Wrote Herald Executive Editor John McMullan last June in welcoming the new puritan revival...
...California lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. Other critics find it inconsistent that newspapers ban sex-film ads but not those for other questionable products, like liquor and cigarettes. Some newspaper executives believe it is futile to try to dictate morality at all. Says Louisville's Vernon Johnston: "We aren't going to make moral decisions for our readers and pretend these places don't exist...