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Beginning in July, Vermont youths will be able at 18 to vote in all elections, buy any alcoholic beverage, marry without parental consent, sign legal contracts, incur debts (and be held accountable for them), inherit estates and be treated as adults by the courts. All these privileges were hitherto reserved for those who had reached the age of 21. The bill was introduced by Vermont's youngest legislator, 24-year-old Representative Kenneth Parker (who in the last election defeated a man 50 years older), and was signed into law by the nation's oldest Governor, Deane...
...strong words," commented Nelson, "coming from the head of a company which, with the other U.S. automakers, was charged by the Government with engaging for 15 years in a conspiracy not to compete in the development of pollution-control devices for the automobile." (The case ended in a consent decree, with the companies pledging to perfect the controls...
...Graves' statement represents no change in policy, but simply reasserts the policy on confidentiality of information outlined by Fouraker in a memorandum to faculty and staff last Fall. The policy prohibits the release of information without a student's written consent...
...Curtis Bok said long ago, "In the whole history of law and order, the longest step forward was taken by primitive men when, as if by common consent, the tribe sat down in a circle and allowed one man to speak at a time." The current insane abandonment of plain good manners calls for the tribe to make firm and quiet ejection of our disrupters...
...says the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 83, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In a new book, Touching on Christian Truth, Dr. Fisher proposes to help the young avoid the sin of fornication by reviving the ancient rite of betrothal. "It would have to take place with the full consent of the two families," he wrote. "It would, in fact, be a sacramental act, made, as indeed marriage itself is, essentially by the two persons themselves. After that, sexual intercourse between them would not be regarded as, in the moral sense, fornication." Marriage and children would follow when...