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...decision was made two years ago in Stanley v. Georgia. The court concluded that obscenity, when it is read or viewed at home, is protected by the Constitution. This decision, it is now argued, implies the right to buy or receive obscenity. In short, decision after decision has opened wider the umbrella of the First Amendment...
Although Crow offers no letup in the agony and gore, it should win Hughes a new and wider following. In it he parcels out human history and legend in a succession of charnel-house episodes. The Garden of Eden, Oedipus, St. George, all our prototypes of beauty, heroism and love, are reduced to so much pulsing, thrashing sinew, murderously intent on survival. A harsh and one-sided view, to be sure, yet difficult to deny. The headlines are on its side. Hughes is too cunning a craftsman to try to convey his vision in headlines or rant of any kind...
...Soviet consumer is finally beginning to demonstrate that he will not tolerate shoddy treatment forever. Last year private saving rose 20% because consumers refused to spend their money on badly made goods. A million TV sets remain unsold not because Soviet consumers cannot afford them but because they want wider screens...
...stock market, President Nixon wanted someone who knew Wall Street from all its angles. The man he chose in February, William J. Casey, a tough-sounding Wall Street tax attorney and onetime Nixon speechwriter, not only knew all the angles but had personally played a few of the wider ones. Casey, 58, is a law partner of former G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall and describes himself as "an investor for venture capital." He frequently buys into little-known companies or products in hopes of hitting the jackpot. To judge by his self-estimated annual income of $250,000, he has come...
...YOUNG. In the 16-to-20 age group, acquaintance with abuse of liquor is wider than might be expected: more than other suburban age groups, the young people interviewed know someone who drinks excessively (58%). All this despite the fact that suburban parents do not consider themselves particularly permissive. If parents found their teenager smoking pot, two-thirds would insist that he stop, nearly a third would try to talk him out of it, and only 1% would not interfere. The sentiment for a strict approach to child rearing emerges in other ways. Two-fifths of the parents would insist...