Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret ballot a constitutional myth? A University of Michigan pre-law student, Susan R. Van Hattum, 21 , has put the issue to a test by refusing a judge's order to identify the candidate for whom she voted in last April's mayoral election in Ann Arbor. Van Hattum was among 20 men and wom en who, unknown to them, lived just outside city limits and should not have voted at all. Any one of those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin...
...April 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco ruled in favor of the small farmer, ordering the Government to enforce the 1902 act. Andrus proposes to do that by forcing large landowners to sell off all acreage exceeding the 160-acre limit to small farmers. Last week he announced that a series of ten public hearings on the new regulations would be held in seven Western states and Washington, D.C., beginning next month. "We expect plenty of testimony, plenty, about how the West was won," he said wryly...
Stephens, now in the first term of his senior year after having interrupted his studies for a four-and-a-half year period, is the only current Harvard undergraduate who took part in the April 1972 takeover of Massachusetts Hall. The takeover by the 34 black students was the culmination of months of protest against Harvard's $13 million holding in the Gulf Oil Corporation, then a leading prop of the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola...
...home heated and powered by 12 solar panels. At 63 he has written more than 50 books, including science fiction works, "Zen stories," and thrillers--the last under the pseudonym of E.V. Cunningham. His best-known works are historical novels such as The Unvanquished, Citizen Tom Paine, April Morning--all set during the Revolutionary War--and Freedom Road, a tale of the Reconstruction Era. But Fast will probably gain the most recognition from his latest novel, and from his two upcoming novels, which will complete a trilogy tracing the growth from 1889 to the present of the three families...
...then write a senior thesis, and face the prospect of long days in the library during the winter, and sleepless nights at the typewriter in April? No two people have exactly the same reasons, but graduating with honors is an obvious motive for writing one, a motive stressed by many thesis writers interviewed last week...