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...promoting sexual freedom have been organized at Stanford, the University of Texas and U.C.L.A. Mainly they demand that college health services provide contraceptives to any students desiring them, and insist that sexual conduct in private is strictly a personal matter not to be regulated by schools or laws. In Austin, The Texas Student League for Responsible Sexual Freedom has 18 members so far, led by Senior Tom Maddux. He contends that limiting birth control pills to married women is "ridiculous," society's attitude toward homosexuality is "hypocritical," and laws against sodomy should be "stricken or radically changed...
American politics has not witnessed such cozy conjugality since Texas' Ma and Pa Ferguson played ring-around-a-rosy with the Governor's mansion in Austin after Pa was impeached for peculation in 1917. Since the Alabama constitution forbids a Governor to succeed himself, George's support for Lurleen is based on the communal-property concept of public office. In his intended role as a kind of local Lord Bird, Wallace hopes to build support for another third-party presidential bid as states' rights candidate...
Despite that analysis, public reaction last week seemed to sharply favor the Painters. In an angry letter to the court, Eugene Austin, chairman of the Nebraska Council on Family Law, called the ruling "an act of tyranny, pure and simple." The Iowa Civil Liberties Union discussed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps on the ground that the decision violated Painter's religious freedom. Painter himself was bitter. "What they've said," he commented, "is that if parents don't conform to a middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children...
Theodore A. Austin, director of the hospital, said last night that a declining population was responsible for the study's recommendation. But he pointed out that Medicare will probably increase the number of patients served by the hospital...
...least one floor of the new building will be devoted to research, but Austin said that it could be easily converted for use by patients...