Time Magazine reported in its science section on the advances in electronics made for eavesdropping on one's neighbors-under the title "Bug Thy Neighbor." "The devices are easy to plant and so hard to detect that their likely victims-lovers or diplomats, criminals or key executives-can seldom be wholly sure any more that confidential conversations are not being overheard and recorded."

In California it was discovered that a newspaper (San Francisco Chronicle) which was editorializing against such goings-on was tapping its own phones. The telephone company admits that it is selling use of such equipment with full approval of the government.

Two books have been published on the subject of "the right to be alone." The Naked Society by Vance Packard (McKay) and The Privacy Invaders by Myron Brenton (Coward-McCann).

Although too many Americans still won't fight such illegal ac'others" run Our tions, letting "others" "Democracy," even the most callous persons will find themselves upset when they contemplate the wife who learned that she had been "investigated" by her husband, who "threw" the information up to her.

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Gore Vidal, writing on the issuance of his Best Man as a motion picture says that "the politcally naive couldn't believe that such a thing as an ambiguous (and false) accusation of homosexuality could be used against a Presidential candidate; yet this was done within memory." What speculation this will bring on! And a new novel on presidential politics, is so chilling and believable that small comfort will be had by homosexuals that

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the author didn't choose homosexuality as one of the weapons used by the ruthless candidate, since in such a campaign of reckless charges, it is only a matter of time. The author is Peter Scaevola and the book is titled simply '68. It is well worth reading. The scene in the bowling alley will, be appreciated more by homosexuals than heterosexuals.

In Los Angeles, the Times refused to run an airline's ad until the girl in the ad's picture had her navel "removed." At a meeting of the Catholic legal and medical guilds the panel said that homosexual acts between consenting adults are a sin in the eyes of the church, but since they harm no one they ought not to be classed as a crime. Panelists were Jesuit theologian Rev. E. P. Sheridan, psychiatrist Dr. R. E. Turner, internal medicine specialist Dr. David MacKenzie, law researcher A. K. Gigaroff and law researcher Dr. Marck MacGuigan, the only other Roman Catholic panelist. In England and other parts of the world the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist churches have publicly taken the same view for a number of years. Yet, there has been no noticeable relief for the homosexuals as a result. Illinois still remains, the NY Times not withstanding, the only place that has actually changed its law in this regard. When the churches concede that homosexuality can not, on the words of Christ, be a sin, then they will be getting somewhere. Maybe the Conference in San Francisco discussed this. Held the last of May, titled "The Church and the Homosexual," we have no report on what the group accomplished.

The U. S. Supreme Court has ruled that a person's hotel room is just as much his castle as is his