■ Hugh Hefner, call your office. President Carter has told HUD employees, “For those of you living in sin, I hope you’ll get married. Those of you who’ve left your spouses, go back home.” Another pre-election promise lies in shards: during the campaign he assured Playboy he wouldn’t condemn that sort of thing.
■ Attorney General Griffin Bell has offered the public school system of Dayton, Ohio good reason to be optimistic about forthcoming hearings before the U.S. Supreme Court. Appearing on Face the Nation, Bell stated that in his estimation the Justices effectively altered the busing corpus when, last December, they vacated the order of a federal appeals court that the Austin, Texas, school system subject itself to a massive desegregation scheme. The Supreme Court said that the appeals court should reconsider its decision in light of a previous finding by the Court that in such cases intent to segregate must be proven. Bell’s remarks provoked moans of consternation from various Busing Brigades, but it appears that he arrived at his decision quite independently, with no help from the Piedmont Driving Club whose comradeship he recently abjured.
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