Supreme Court has set a new Constitutional standard for libel in which actual malice must be proved to recover damages. The case in question was the suit against the New York Times by racial bigots in Alabama. The Oxnard Press Courier, California, and the Houston Chronicle, Texas, are among many newspapers carrying articles on censorship. Too bad so little research and thought goes into such articles. The blame for the failure of tv, radio, newspapers, and magazines to carry articles, honestly written, on homosexuality lies at the door, or feet of the owners and editors. Although they deplore curbs and controls, it is plain that they do let other people tell them what to print and say, such as sponsors, various church groups, decency leagues, etc. The head of the FCC told the broadcasters that he didn't feel they were quite honest when they complained about wanting freedom of speech when they did not come to the aid of the one station, or group of stations, actually being attacked by the FCC and pressure groups Pacifica Foundation stations.

Sweden is in an uproar over a petition from 140 eminent physicians which is a plea for swift steps to stop sexual laxity because it is a menace to the vitality and health of the nation." But it is not as bad to have private citzens attacking your ideas and beliefs as it is to have the whole weight and power of the federal government, as is the case in France reported in Confi. How absurd the French are, to be banning books they have been publishing and reading for decades.

In New York the State Liquor Authority has closed 5 bars because they catered to homosexuals. (Grove Bowling Inc., 17 Grove St.,

Brooklyn; Mike's Island Park Lanes, 256 Long Beach Road, Island Park, L. I.; the Staff Inn Bar & Grill, 150 Columbus Ave., near 67th St.; the Capo De Flores Restaurant, 2082 Madison Ave.). In Hollywood a newsstand is selling a small magazine about the size of the defunct Quick, called Homo. The price is only $2.50. Justice Weekly, a Canadian paper, reprinted James Colton's Red Leaves. Physique Pictorial's latest issue mentions ONE. Playboy's April issue had a rather objective article on homosexuality -the editor's "Philosophy" series. Science Digest, April, gives its readers a synopsis of the Bieber book (see review in April, 1962 ONE) in an article attributed to Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur, written by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Very unscientific. At least Harper's Magazine, February, '64, has an article by a psychiatrist (Szazy) who demands that we stop labeling everyone as mentally ill that is a non-conformist or different from others. The Saturday Evening Post carried a similar message from Dr. Karl Menninger a little later on the consequences of mislabeling people and the irresponsible use of terms. In California a study of children labeled retarded showed that about half of them were not and did not need special schools.

In Aix-en-Provence, France, Charles Trenet, one of France's most popular singers, was given a suspended sentence of one year in prison and fined about $2,000 for unnatural sex relations with male minors. He was accused of picking up hitchhikers and taking them to indecent parties. The chief witness, Robert Derlin, 18, Trenet's secretary, was NOT convicted of the same changes. Newsweek of June. 29th has a picture and article on Trenet's triumphant return to night

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