Word: springly
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Viet Nam War Challenge. Finally, the court has been asked to rule on the legality of the Viet Nam War. Last spring the Massachusetts legislature passed a statute providing that no serviceman shall be required to serve in an overseas war that has not been declared by Congress; the state now seeks a declaration from the court that U.S. participation in the Viet Nam War is unconstitutional. If the court accepts the case, warned Justice Department attorneys last week, the Justices might conceivably be forced to set up their own military-affairs office, supervising troop withdrawals and dealing diplomatically with...
...money is strong. What the reduction in the bankers' prime rate really signals is that money has become more plentiful, with the result that minimum down payments on houses may well become lower and some would-be home buyers who could not get mortgages at any price last spring may do better...
...Walpole who like Valeri was scheduled to enroll in Northeastern University this fall; Stanley R. Bond, 26, another ex-convict from Walpole who entered Brandeis last February on the special prison STEP program; Kathy Power, 21, a Brandeis senior active in the national student strike center there through the spring and summer; and Susan Saxe, 21, a June graduate of Brandeis, magna cum laude in American and English Literature...
Brandeis acting president Charles I. Schottland was in a jam. The National Student Strike Information Center had been a bane to his administration since it was set up last Spring. First, there were immediate questions about its effect on the university's taxexempt status; second there were questions among his own faculty of its propriety; third, there were questions-many, many question- from alumni about contributing to a school that let its students run nation-wide strikes instead of studying. Fourth, the Brandeis students had said there is no question but the strike center must stay open...
During the Spring, workers in the center bustled around with more fervor than any other student body in the country. A New England co-ordinator, for instance, called the CRIMSON nearly every day to complain about the lack of initiative in our coverage. "What do you mean you've got your own problems?" he screamed one day. "Don't you know there's a strike going on? We've got to keep going. We can't quit. Everyone is watching us. This is our chance to make things work...