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...TOUGH, comprehensive gun-control law enacted in New Jersey 22 months ago might well serve as a model for federal action. Chapter 151 of the Revised New Jersey Statutes requires that all owners or would-be owners of firearms have an identification card, involving fingerprinting and a character investigation. A criminal record, narcotics addiction, alcoholism, mental illness or a physical handicap that would impair proficiency with a gun are all grounds for withholding the card. The police may also reject "any person where the issuance would not be in the interest of the public health, safety or welfare"-a catchall...
...requests for firearm permits under the law, 1,600 have been denied. A number of the refusals are being appealed. In addition, the state supreme court is hearing two challenges to the law's constitutionality. In one, the Monmouth County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is contesting a provision that makes membership in a "subversive" organization grounds for denying an I.D. card or a purchase permit. In the other, the law is being questioned on the grounds that it abridges the right to bear arms and interferes with interstate commerce...
That still left each of the 250 S.D.S. chapters free to do its own thing-including a little selfcriticism. One delegate strode down the aisle with a wastebasket on his head while a companion cried: "I nominate this trash can for national secretary." Workshops at the convention suggested a variety of possibilities, ranging from a concentration on "self-defense and internal security" to "organizing G.I.s" and "forming chapters at backward conservative campuses." If there was one common new goal it was a drive to expand S.D.S. influence in the nation's high schools. The Madison, Wis., chapter will...
Perhaps the mood of the report is more important than its recommendations: "For a half century," one chapter begins, "Harvard was believed by many to occupy a unique position in the American system of higher education; and that position no longer seems as secure as it once...
...school's public-to-private school graduate ratio from 40-60 to 60-40. The new radicals there call themselves "Dunham's Children" after the admissions dean. Upperclassmen were calling them "lunchmeat"--a favorite Princeton expression. But the "lunchies" dominate Princeton now. And a tiny but active SDS chapter has been organizing sit-ins all year...