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Quaker coach George Breen, a one-time medalist in the Olympics, may have been a bit carried away two weeks ago his team had just lost to Yale by a mere 25 points-when he said, "The rivalry has started." But for the first time in many years, Penn should give the Crimson a lot of competition in today's 4 p. m. meet...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Mermen Visit Philadelphia; Penn Meet Appears Close | 2/28/1970 | See Source »

...speed-up induction of another protester, David Gutknecht of Gaylord, Minn., and outlawed all existing delinquency rules on the ground that Congress never intended to grant draft boards such "broad, roving authority." Last week the court applied its doctrine to the broad category of deferments. That case involved Timothy Breen, a student at Boston's Berklee School of Music whose Connecticut draft board took away his 2-S (student) status after he handed his draft card to a minister during a protest service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: No Draft as Discipline | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...draft and wanted a judicial trial of their claims were left with an unpleasant choice. They could refuse induction and hope to win the ensuing criminal prosecution, or enter the service and then go through the slow process of seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Now the Oestereich and Breen decisions establish that anyone whose draft board is guilty of a "clear departure from its statutory mandate" can ask federal courts to review his case before he faces induction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: No Draft as Discipline | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

Standing at Washington Station, on the eight-block strip from the Old South Meeting House to Michael Breen Square, you will see nothing but a jumble of neon and a jungle of blaring discotheques and smutty bookshops...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Hetero, Homo, Sado and Pseudo: Skin Flicks Offer All Perversions | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

...night, policemen are posted at every intersection on this strip. A navy blue M.P. paddywagon watches over one of the discotheques. Gangs of well-liquored sailors and well-lacquered women stroll the street, stopping to chat in convenient alleyways. At Breen Square, a plump Polish girl will offer to show you her apartment...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Hetero, Homo, Sado and Pseudo: Skin Flicks Offer All Perversions | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

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