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Last year the court gave local jurisdictions the right to apply their own standards in determining what is illegally obscene. But this year it unanimously overturned one such local ruling while upholding another. Now the way is open for an endless string of smut cases to be appealed to the...
Andrew Pickens Miller, 41, first sampled Virginia politics while chauffeuring his father Francis Pickens Miller, an anti-Byrd, anti-machine candidate, through an unsuccessful 1949 campaign for Governor. After Princeton and the University of Virginia Law School, the younger Miller became president of Virginia's Young Democrats and in...
Matthew J. Troy Jr., 44. An energetic New York City councilman, Troy is also leader of the state's second largest Democratic county organization. His election to the Queens County post in 1971 elicited congratulatory phone calls from a gaggle of presidential hopefuls. Although he opposes busing and led...
Kevin H. White, 44, Democratic mayor of Boston, has succeeded John Lindsay as the most visible articulator of urban problems. Educated at Williams, White was elected Massachusetts secretary of state in 1959 and went on to win the mayoralty in 1967 against antibusing candidate Louise Day Hicks. Though he has...
The ruling ushered in a generation of anguished testing and advances of the idea of equality. Yet in Topeka, Kans., in 1954, the parents of Linda Brown, an eleven-year-old black girl, had mere ly sought the right for her to attend a segregated white school in her own...