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...University of California regents appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court, and today is their day in court. Maybe. While it is entirely possible that the Supreme Court will either affirm or reverse the prior decision, a third alternative exists, one which would delay any final ruling by months, even years. The Supreme Court may remand the case to the initial trial court to expand the record...
...thousand six hundred seventeen freshmen--concentrated in an over-crowded Yard and boasting the lowest male-female ratio in Harvard Radcliffe history--will descend upon Memorial Hall today to affirm their status as paid-in-full undergraduates...
REVOLUTION. We are not returning to social democracy! ... We do not rule put, by any means, the possibility of taking power through revolution, if the dominant classes close democratic channels and the circumstances that make revolution possible were to come about. [But in Spain today] we affirm that it is possible to go from dictatorship to democracy without force...
...sale of contraceptives, prohibiting possession of obscene material in the home and outlawing abortions. Even so, the court is obviously in no mood to extend privacy rights to sexual deviants, particularly homosexuals. Fourteen months ago, without even bothering to hear formal arguments, the court voted 6 to 3 to affirm a decision upholding Virginia's antisodomy statute...
That means, most significantly, that the U.A.W. will continue to uphold the Reutherian philosophy of pursuing social goals no less fervently than higher wages. The union has long championed national health insurance, and both Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter dropped by to affirm their own commitment to that goal (see THE NATION). For all their dedication to social welfare, however, auto workers are among the world's most privileged wage earners; Kennedy quipped at the convocation that just about the only paid holiday the U.A.W. does not get is Groundhog Day, "and if I know Leonard...