I was born March 1, 1965, so let’s see what made the New York Times the following day, March 2, 1965:
Australia Punishes Dawn Fraser For Capers as Olympic Swimmer
Dawn Fraser, one of the world’s greatest swimmers, was suspended for 10 years today by the Australian Swimming Union for alleged misconduct at the 1964 Olympics.
The action — which cannot be appealed — will mean in effect the end of Miss Fraser’s swimming career. Now 27 years old, she would be too old for top-flight performance by the time she could apply for reinstatement.
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The swimming union gave no details on the charges against the women. All four, however, marched in the opening Olympic ceremonies at Tokyo although ordered not to because they had been scheduled to compete during the first three days of the games.
According to Wikipedia, Dawn Fraser also wore a “swimming costume” from the competitor of the sponsor (Australian swimming sponsor? Not clear) because it was more comfortable, and was accused of stealing an Olympic flag from a flagpole outside Emperor Hirohito‘s palace. She denied those charges.
This is not the first time sponsors and athletes have butted heads: at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, some members of the American mens basketball team – the Dream Team – had contracts with Nike and refused to wear the mandated Rebook attire at the medal ceremony. And heaven forbid that the sexual activity of today’s games occurred or was publicly acknowledged in 1964.
Court Here Outlaws Electronic Bugging
The New York State law authorizing electronic eavesdropping was declared unconstitutional yesterday by Justice Nathan R. Sobel in Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
The 1958 law permits the police, when authorized by a court, to place a bug, or eavesdropping device, on a suspect’s private premises. The law also permits wiretapping, but this was not affected by the decision.
In a 32-page opinion, Justice Sobel said eavesdropping orders were invalid because they could not meet the standards required for the issuance of search warrants under the Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitutional.
Justice Sobel wrote and published books and law articles on search and seizure and other constitutional issues. His 1965 ruling was well in advance of the FISA act which established a secret court for issuing warrants for electronic surveillance in national security cases (which rarely modifies or denies such requests). I wonder what his views on FISA would be (though, as a secret court, he may not have known enough to make an educated guess).
266 Apply To Vote as Selma Speeds Negro Registration
In spite of rain and Sheriff James G. Clark, twice as many Negros as ever before went through the voter-registration process at the Dallas County Courthouse here today.
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wound up a day of courthouse tours in the Black Belt by confronting a voting registrar in Haynesville, the county seat of Lowndes County, where Negros outnumber whites 4 to 1 but no Negro is registered to vote. Dr. King asked why that was so.
“There is a better relationship between the Negroes and whites here than anywhere in the world.” said the registrar, Carl Gohlson. “If you folks would stay out of Lowndes County, we can take care of the situation.”
Wikipedia explains that Jim Clarke is “remembered as a rasist whose brutal tactics included using cattle prods against unarmed civil rights supporters. Appears that tactics used by ICE are just a repeat of history. And Republicans have been successfully disenfranchising legitimate voters for years, claiming fraud but in fact using the purported fraud to keep out poorer or older voters whom might vote them out of office. The more things change, they more things stay the same ….
