Blind censors in Clarkstown spark debate on movie censorship
A New York town appointed a blind man, Harry Snyder, as censor with eight seeing colleagues. The piece defends blind censorship as sane and argues censorship reflects personal feeling, not sight, urging that the blind should judge content and that television, not films or books, defines the community’s standards.
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N.Y
Harry Snyder
Mister Truth
Chamber of Commerce
U.S.A
Snyder
Four Day Week Quietly Reshapes American Life
A four day work week could arrive within a decade aided by a prolonged fuel shortage. It would not cut pay but shift hours to four nine hour days, with weekends staggered. Experiments suggest productivity can stay steady or rise, while labor and management weigh health, safety, and customer impact.
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Jerome M. Rosen
Exxon
Labor Movement
Labor Department
White House
Riva Poor
Four Day Week Could Reshape Work and Energy Use
A 20 percent cut in driving and a Sunday driving ban could lower fuel use and traffic. A four day week may boost leisure spending, alter moonlighting, aid working women, and spur flex time, with federal models leading state and local adoption in time.
Dinner for fathers and sons at Second Congregational Church
A Friday dinner at the Chapel of the Second Congregational church will host about 150 fathers and sons from the community for an annual evening of entertainment and fellowship. Men without sons may attend with sons provided by the Y.
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Second Congregational Church
St. Joseph’s Commercial School
New Academy Hall
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Sisters of St. Joseph
Licensing Parenthood and Senility Licenses? A Satirical Look
Washington columnist Dick West notes University of Maryland professor Roger McIntire proposes a government parenthood license tied to childrearing knowledge. The piece lampoons licensing fears by imagining penalties for aging and doddering, suggesting absurd rigid controls as a satire of state overreach.
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