Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...doctor says Earle Spring should be allowed to die. Spring's wife and son concur. So does a probate court judge. Yet last week Spring, 78, who is senile, was still receiving the kidney dialysis treatments that sustain his life, while Justice Francis J. Quirico, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, tried to decide if there was any new evidence to justify reopening arguments on whether Spring himself would prefer to die. Quirico's decision could be important for the increasing numbers of Americans who, though severely ill like Spring, could be kept alive for years by modern...
Charles King, newly elected president of the Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS), said last week the UCS will research the issue this spring and submit a specific proposal to the faculty next fall...
Peter Heywood, Professor of biology, is also seeking support for a calendar reform proposal. Heywood's plan calls for the first semester to begin at the end of August and end by Thanksgiving. The second semester would run from mid-January to spring vacation...
Heywood, said last week his proposal would save substantially on Brown's fuel costs by cutting heating during early winter. After spring vacation, when there is no longer a danger of freezing, the university could cut off all heat and electricity from some non-essential buildings, he added...
...case concerns a Labor Party member charged with trespassing when he distributed leaflets outside one of Princeton's dining halls in the spring...