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...owns the rich oil deposits that lie more than three miles off the U.S. Atlantic seaboard-the coastal states or the Federal Government? Last week the Supreme Court with Justice Douglas still absent ruled unanimously that the rights to the seabed and subsoil belong to the U.S. Despite the huge potential payoff involved, the Justices deliberated swiftly and reached their decision three weeks after oral argument...
...equal-rights movement has bumped up against one of the most powerful bastions of male dominance in the U.S.-and moved it. Last week the men who sit on the Supreme Court, again with Douglas absent, unanimously ruled that an amendment to the Social Security Act granting aid to a widow caring for a child but not to a widower is unconstitutional. Taking a tough stand against sex discrimination, the court said that the Constitution would not tolerate the assumption "that male workers' earnings are vital to the support of their families, while the earnings of female wage earners...
Chief bench-warmer and ex-Indy sports editor David Smith was absent from the contest. Although not confirmed, rumors claim that the hockey writer was still trying to thumb back from St. Louis where he watched the Harvard icemen dance with grandeur and then leave him behind. He was last seen sitting under the soaring arch in St. Louis next to the Mississippi...
...openers, the familiar face of Bruce Munro, who has coached the Crimson stickmen for the past 25 years, will be absent from the Harvard bench. Munro stepped down from the head coaching position last spring, and in his place will be Bob Scalise, a former assistant coach and a standout player at Brown...
...unstrained authority and is resonant with insight. She would make a marvelous Candida if some astute producer chose to revive the Shaw classic. Grodin is a kind of Dagwood uncharacteristically blessed with a heart and a mind. His manifest desire to do the right thing by both his absent wife and Doris contributes visibly to the felt compassion of the play. Rarely have a man and a woman on a stage mixed the honey of love and the glue of marriage so deftly that both are bonded in sweetness and surety...