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DECENT AND INDECENT: OUR PERSONAL AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR by Benjamin Spock, M.D. 210 pages. McCall...
...know more than you think you do," Benjamin Spock reassured mothers at the opening of Baby and Child Care. Your baby "can care for himself pretty well." Spock's message, which has sold more than 23 million copies was a pacifier for parents. But as everyone knows by now, the doctor who shaped the care and feeding of the babies who have become America's most restive generation is troubled about the nation in which they have grown...
...system is the present Greek government, and the adventure is the extrapolation of an incident in Athens, circa 1963. A Spock-like physician-politician (Yves Montand) addresses an antimilitary rally. As he leaves the assembly hall, he is viciously clubbed by hired assassins as a truck simultaneously brushes past him. Three days later, without regaining consciousness, he dies. Officials immediately offer smug condolences about the "regrettable traffic accident." But a few bits of offal stick to the whitewash. A journalist coaxes a witness into a confession; an alibi springs an irreparable leak. The incorruptible public prosecutor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) remains...
Following Spock's speech, the protestors marched to the 10th street entrance of the Justice Department building. A delegation of lawyers who wanted to present a statement to Attorney General John Mitchell, asking him to end the trial, was denied entrance...
...Spock and the other speakers questioned the constitutionality of the anti-riot law which the defendants have been indicted for violating. The law forbids crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot. The speakers said the law violates people's right to free speech and free thought...