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VS STILL USING MINORS

Because "we thought we could get a conviction if minors were involved," Chief Deputy DA Bowler contacted Alex Pantaleoni, police science professor (and exinvestigator for DA's office) at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, Calif., and borrowed two 17 year old boy students. The minors, with plainclothesmen, were sent to a newsstand and purchased TROPIC OF CANCER and MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE. The two newsstand employees were then promptly arrested for selling pronography to minors.

OH MAMA, OH MAMA POOR PAPA'S BEEN CAUGHT IN DRAG AGAIN

In NYC, a tall, burly 58 year old father was arrested while walking one afternoon near 91st St. & West End Ave. and charged with vagrancy-for wearing a brown 2-piece woman's suit, high heels, fur cape, purse, gray wig, lipstick, and powder. The judge sentenced two days in the workhouse and suspended the sentence. But the defendant appealed with a brief from the ACLU of NY pleading that a man who wears woman's clothes is not "a danger

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to the safety, health and welfare of society" and contending flatly that it is unconstitutional to arrest as a "vagrant" a man for nothing more than wearing woman's clothes. Date for appellate court argument, which should be quite kicky, has not yet been set. EASTERNERS PICK THEIR MAN OF THE YEAR

Members of ECHO (East Coast Homophile Organizations) at their WASH., D.C. banquet tongue-incheekish cited as the public official who has done the most to help and call attention to the homosexual cause in the last year none other than Representative John Dowdy of Texas that mortal enemy who spearheaded that bill specifically revoking the charity solicitation permit of Mattachine Society of Wash., D.C. A spokesman for Dowdy told the press no invitation had been received and that the award was just to embarrass him.

ANGLICAN MINISTER ON HOMOPHILE MARRIAGE

"An intermediate step" in helping homosexuals is "the encouragement of a stable and continuing relationship comparable to heterosexual marriage" says Rev.

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