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...problem goes to the courts, where the President feels the law will be declared unconstitutional. Many legal scholars agree with him, pointing to Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, which describes voters as males "being 21 years of age." On the other side of the argument, some lawyers contend that the "equal protection of the laws" demanded in Section 1 of the same amendment opens the way for Congress to act on the issue with simple legislation. Congress anticipated a Supreme Court test by explicitly providing for one to be made and completed, hopefully before the act takes effect...
...another for women to a realistic new code that would grant both sexes equal freedom and responsibility. They singled out for criticism a recent Soviet film in which the man roughs up his fiancee after he discovers that she is not a virgin. It was none of his business, contend Kharchev and Golod. They recommend that "women should have the right to have premarital and extramarital sex life...
...SQUARE is made for cosmic laughs. Jugglers and jackanapes, mountebanks and missionaries, charlatans and saints, revelations and rip offs contend for your attention. This summer promises to be cataclysmic in and around the Square. This article is humbly offered as an aid to the physical layout of the area- and a warning against a few of the more blatant institutional ripoffs...
...idea of the Square as Game, and they play it to the hilt. The most conspicuous is the Hare Krishna people. They have shaved heads with pigtails, wear long white robes, and chant HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE/HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE. They contend that this makes their lives sublime, and that it can do the same for you and me. They ask for money and distribute cards bearing the chant I have just outlined. Take a card, because it contains also an invitation to a love feast held every Sunday at their temple...
...things that need to be set right and feel so powerless to effect change. If so, such feeling is not without justification. But you must not assume you are the first to have felt this way, for it is a feeling with which the concerned have always had to contend...