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Charles Manson unintentionally put some clues into his particular psychological makeup on a piece of paper last week, as he sat in court for arraignment on car-theft charges. The insights came in the form of doodles on a legal pad-disoriented scribblings that suggest to two experts a psyche torn asunder by powerful thrusts of aggression, guilt and hostility. According to Dr. Emanuel F. Hammer, a psychoanalyst who studied the doodles without knowing who drew them, they point to "an inner tension that is jampacked with jarring elements. The drawings hit you like chaos on the part...
Chances are that no one would object if a school put children's drawings of snowmen and candy canes in its windows at Christmastime-but how about stars and angels? Questions like this have become pertinent since the Supreme Court's 1962 school-prayer decision. But they are difficult to answer. Unable to define a consistent policy toward what is both a religious and a secular holiday and a major event in Western culture, most school officials have adopted a hands-off policy. They generally leave principals and teachers free to organize whatever parties, pageants and other observances...
...consumer division in the Justice Department and expanded powers that would enable the FTC to seek injunctions against unfair business practices. As Nader and other consumer activists have long been demanding, the President also asked Congress to allow consumers to join together in "class action" damage suits in federal courts against errant manufacturers or merchants. If found guilty of deceptive trade practices, manufacturers would have to bear all legal fees and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon disappointed consumer advocates, however, by proposing that suits be limited to eleven specified offenses, including worthless warranties and false claims...
...demonstrators walked out under the glare of television flood lights at 4:45 p.m.- two hours after a Cambridge court issued an injunction against the students and three hours after Dean May temporarily suspended all students involved in the demonstration...
...Administration obtained the temporary restraining order at 3 p.m. after a 45-minute hearing before Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Thomas Spring...