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the P.O is powerless to interfere with delivery and that only the recipient himself can stop the stuff coming to him by contacting the sender di But the P.O does interfere with mail despite its protests that Supreme Court decisions have robbed it of this right. The New Republic reported cases of government employees and professional men whose employers had been told they were receiving "obscene" mail before they were told anything about it. And one of the instances cited in volved First Class Mail from a "pen pal." On a more cheerful note, the Topanga Canyon Club is out of trouble Judge John Merrick of the Malibu Calif Justice Court has dismissed two misdemeanor charges against the club's owner and ruled that the establishment does not come under the law requiring licenses for dancing clubs or dancing schools. In 1964 the county revoked the club's dancing license on testimony of sheriff's deputies "that males were dancing with males.” A new British play, The Killing of Sister George, that tells of the downfall of a soapopera star who is a lesbian, is smash hit Science News Letter reports that "men who smoke are, as a group, more feminine than those who do not

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therefore, smoking may in part symbolically represent a search for masculinity The nonsmoker is a better marriage prospect. The heavy smoker is restless, nervous, extroverted, energetic, thrill-seeking, independent, the nonsmoker is puri tanic, conservative, stable, agreeable, dependable, religious If this

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Along the same lines, the Mon treal Star carried this opinion by New York psychiatrist Lewis R. Wol berg "Confronted by a woman in [slacks] who sometimes look more like a motorcycle cop than a femme fatale [the normal man] will soon develop a whole new set of conditioned sexual responses He sees

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coming ‘a civilization of weak men and strong women that find expression in long hair and perfume in males and leather coats and sloppy pants in females." An American tourist just back from Copenhagen wrote to the Chicago Sun Times "Help' I think a third sex has developed. On our first visit to the famous Tivoli Gardens thousands of young boys, or were they boys? with long hair, much longer and curlier than the Beatles hair, walking around in pointed toe shoes and high heels. Our son, with a crew cut, looked a little out of place Only a little? Ann Landers answers a boy too late who thought that "any guy who says he's a homosexual gets classified 4F" as follows "If you think kissing the draft board doctor and announcing that you are a homosexual would have excused you from military service, I have a flash for you This is what would have happened The draft board doctor would have turned you over to a psychiatrist for examination a battery of tests. And if you had flunked, you'd have been on your way to Fort Ord or Camp Robinson faster than you could say 'My high heels are killing me.' Then again, he might not have flunk ed the tests.

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