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...contrary is true. As a judge of the court, I voted to acquit Lenny Bruce and to dismiss the information. I dissented from the conviction and wrote a dissenting opinion that expressed some of my distaste for the whole proceeding-which opinion was found so sharp as to warrant the censorship of non-publication in the official reports. The reversal on appeal of the co-defendant cannot set aright the fatal judicial wrong done Lenny Bruce-a wrong that is one of the reasons for my retirement from the bench...
...Occupational Deferments: The National Security Council advises that: deferments based on the list of essential activities and critical occupations should be suspended. The Secretary of Defense, Labor, and Commerce, should maintain a continuing surveillance over the nation's manpower needs and identify any particular occupation or skill that may warrant qualifying for deferment on a uniform national basis. When any such occupation or skill is so identified, the Council will be notified so that it may consider the need and advise the director of the Selective Service System accordingly...
...Secretaries of Defense, Labor, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare will maintain a continuing surveillance over the nation's manpower and educational needs to identify any area of graduate study that may warrant qualifying for deferment in the national interest. When any such field is so identified, the council will be notified so that it may consider the need and advise the director of Selective Service System accordingly...
Perhaps the biggest flaw in the idea of boycotting the Olympics is the assumption that there are enough white people in this country who care about the Olympics to warrant the protest. Sports may be one of the few areas in America where blacks have status, but can amateur athletic status be transformed into political leverage? I doubt it. Perhaps if pro stars like Bill Russell or Willie Mays were to refuse to compete in their sports until some particular bit of civil rights progress had been made and their white teammates joined them, then there might be a burst...
Paul sees no warrant for assuming, as his son does, that "the universe starts from some particular point and moves in a definite direction, or that man is contributing to that movement." The universe, he says, is the brute force of nature. "It has no direction or purpose. Direction and purpose derive from men who reflect upon what they have been doing and what they want to attain...