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Despite such evidence of vast private support, prostitution is illegal in every state except Nevada. An effort to legalize it in California last month died in the state legislature. But when laws are so widely broken, it seems reasonable to ask whether the laws should not be changed. It was not so long ago, after all, that placing a bet and buying a drink were punishable as crimes, yet now the Government generally accepts such behavior and even sponsors it, via state liquor stores and lotteries. As to prostitution, then, may we not rely on the good sense...
Like most of the other 25 judges who spent a day as mock convicts in Nevada State Prison last summer, Plummer Shearin of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Md., came away shaken by the experience. But he saw a way to help at least one of the real prisoners. During seminars with "con-sultants," he had met and been impressed by Thomas Eisentrager, 48, a lifer. Checking further, Shearin found that Eisentrager was also highly regarded by both prison officials and fellow convicts for his thoughtful views on penology and probation, his reliability in prison jobs and his efforts...
...Element. The apparent finality did not daunt Shearin. He offered to take custody of Eisentrager and lined up a job for him as a probation counselor in Gaithersburg, Md. Last month he returned to Nevada to plead Eisentrager's case before the parole board. Though it had unanimously turned down the convict's parole bid once before, the board this time voted 4 to 2 for his release. One of the dissenters, Justice John Mowbray, who had sentenced Eisentrager originally, asked, "Why is this man being treated any differently than any lifer? Others in his same position think...
...argues that the test, on which $ 167 million has been spent thus far, will not harm the environment; further, it is vital to the development of weapons for the nation's defense. While radioactive debris has escaped from 68 of 253 underground nuclear tests held in Nevada, AEC officials contend that no leaks have been recorded for tests of more than 200 kilotons. On the other hand, they admit that water contaminated with radioactive tritium could seep through open rock to the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean any time within three to 1,000 years. Such uncertainty hardly...
Wild Horse Annie Law," which prohibits the hunting of wild horses from airplanes or other motorized vehicles on the public domain. In addition, Annie's lobbying helped establish wild-horse sanctuaries in the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming and at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada...