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PLAYBOY eee ee seme ene Nabors Aeron, J Space Administration ¢ community has changed. Up to now. ~ aie police have acted toward submerged sections of the population without the same restraint that they've shown toward We make one for Gemini- the more articulate and advantaged citi- zens who have long held power—and en- now we offer 9 for you joyed the benefits of counsel as a matter | of course. But now the depressed popu- tape recorders from lations have a voice and leadership. They believe in themselves and are act- ° $ 95* ing collectively—and effectively—through RCA Victor (from 49 ) organizations representing them. i BELU: We're just damned lucky that we | live in a country where the Supreme i Court protects the stumblebum siceping under the railroad bridge as zealously as it does the president of the railroad sleeping in his private car. In the Gideon case, for instance, the Court weighed the | appeal of an insignificant unknown con- | i ¥ 2 Evonay . any vict as carefully as they would a_ brief from the president of U.S. Steel. As soon as the Supreme Court forgets the rights of the least of us, the rest of us are going to be taken over by the “righteous” who can’t wait to ride roughshod over the Constitution. When he was Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy was quoted as saying, “We can and must see to it that America does not unjustly punish the man who is already serving a life sentence of poverty.” RUSTIN: We can and must—but we don’t and haven't. We continue to maintain a plethora of statutes meant only to harass the poor and the weak. Vagrancy laws, for instance, are the most oppressive type of class legislation. They exact pun- ishment for the so-called crime of being poor and unemployed. Making a ciime out of the state of being jobless in a society steadily wiping out jobs through automation is simply not worthy of a civilized people. PEMBERTON: Vagrancy laws, essentially, ~yare arievice used bv local authorities :0 keep what they call “undesirables” out of the community by harassing them, ar- resting them repeatedly till they Jeave i. and haunt some other city. A poor | Nine to choose from—and every one is Solid State. Not a tube in the lot. | drunk will be ridden mercilessly by po- And they all have the Space Age reliability of RCA Solid Copper Circuits that | lice just for being drunk. but a rich ; ; _ , : drunk can sop it up by the gallon for won't come loose, won't short Circuit, won't go haywire. years and never feel the law's weight, Choose a snap-in cartridge model that loads in seconds. Or a reel-to-reel | RustIN: AIL too true. But that isn’t the . model. The Tiros / at upper left is battery operatéd. Take it anywhere. Or, | Worst of it. Perhaps the most notorious : : — inequity of all in modern Jaw enforce- with adapter (optional), plug it into any 120-volt AC outlet. The Score 4, 1 ment is the bail-bond system, which pe- above, is a deluxe 4-track reel-to-reel model with 6” oval speaker, tone | nalizes the poor for being poor. If a poor control, tape usage digital counter and VU meter. See them and Na man cannot dig up bail, he must stay in ; . . ' i by) jail for mouths awaiting trial—just as seven more—at your RCA Victor dealer’s—soon. . ; venmemer 1 though he had already been proven “For the Tiros |, prices optional with dealer guilty. Nobody gives him back those : months of imprisonment, nor is he recom- ! pensed in any way if he is eventually found innocent. The rich offender, mean- ms while. can walk the streets freely because : he has the money to spring himself. In- -— stead of reauirine financial land cauires i wece tte othe | | RCA Solid Copper Circuits are the circuits of the Space Age... they re- place old-fashioned handwiring for better perlormance, greater depend- ability, fewer service headaches,