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Residency rules are just as stringent. Federal law allows states to require newcomers with dependent children to wait as long as one year to become eligible for U.S.-backed aid. States can also withhold the funds of their own welfare programs for as long as they choose. A South Dakota law can bar needy outsiders from ever collecting welfare; in Massachusetts they can be deported to their native states. All such requirements sit uneasily with the spirit of a 1941 Supreme Court decision voiding California's "anti-Okie" law and guaranteeing indigents free access to any state. And last...
...error in yesterday's CRIMSON made the College's leave-of-absence policy seem unusually stringent. "If you're told to leave, you must stay away two years," the story said. It should have been, as was later made clear, two terms...
...present program sets a less stringent standard of "financial need." Harvard, Ehrensperger said, interprets this as anyone having trouble paying tuition, opening the program to a far larger number of students...
...least three different groups of British moviemakers-one of them including Richard Burton-have shown some interest in a film about the truelife Lavender Hill Mob. What has held up production is worry over the country's stringent libel laws, and a ruling by Britain's film censorship board that such a movie might prejudice the still incomplete case. Meanwhile, German Producer Egon Monk has stolen the story from them. He shot 80% of the movie in England, changing names but otherwise retelling the robbery in straightforward documentary style...
Legal Interns. In the wake of U.S. Supreme Court rulings setting stringent guidelines for policemen to follow in searching, seizing and questioning suspects, many law-enforcement officers complain that they are hamstrung. Said one disgruntled Corpus Christi, Texas, cop: "It's getting so bad that lawyers practically have to ride around in patrol cars." That's precisely what Frank Carrington and a number of other young lawyers, trained at Northwestern's Law School under a $300,000, five-year Ford Foundation grant, have been doing. "The resolution of conflicts between maximum police efficiency and maximum individual liberty...