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COURT SLAPS SMUT-HUNTERS:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against City of L.A. which had really gone all out to ban Tropic of Cancer as obscene. After getting the news, City Attorney Arnebergh made this public statement: "If Tropic of Cancer is not obscene, it would be difficult to conceive of anything that would be obscene. We shall be guided accordingly in considering future prosecutions."

For the winning side, ACLU attorney A. L. Wirin said the decision calls for a halt to censorship of books by the L.A. Police Department."

MURDERER'S EXCUSE OF "HOMOSEXUAL ADVANCES" DIDN'T WORK THIS TIME:

Glen Seip in Toronto claimed that traumatic bewilderment from homosexual advances was why he beat to death Ronald Grigor, 30.

First indication that the Court wasn't buying this old story was when Chief Justice McRuer remarked that Seip couldn't have been too shook up by it as he had systematically rifled the apartment afterwards, stolen all the clothes, then stolen the victim's car. Then the plea of traumatic bewilderment completely fell apart when a 17year-old witness testified that Seip was certainly no bewildered stranger to homosexuality as he had had intercourse twice with him and "on neither occasion did he object, resist or show any violence.' The sentence the murderer got was life imprisonment.

OF MANY THINGS, OF CABBAGES & QUEENS:

In the crackdown on Yosemite, Federal Judge MacBride sentenced one man from L.A. and one from San Francisco to 3 years in jail plus psychiatric treatment and

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