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...Brown's fourteenth straight Ivy win included goals by six different players. Gary Kaufman got his fourth League goal, keeping him one ahead of Harvard's Scott Robertson in the individual scoring race. Robertson, however, has played in one less game, and also has an assist to his credit...
...bill of complaint, filed yesterday by Gerald Berlin, Bowles' attorney, Bowles alleged that the oath was in viclation of the first, ninth and fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and Articles XII and XVI of the Deceleration of Rights of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...article has some important ideas, as well as being rich in quotable phrases. To the argument that the authors of the fourteenth amendment did not intend for it to be used to equalize political districts, he presents considerable evidence that deference to the intentions of the framers of constitutional provisions would lead "not just to mal-apportioned legislatures, but to segregated schools, a revival of the Federal Sedition Act, and unfettered state control over speech, religion, press and assembly as well." He contends, in a bold generalization, that such deference is nothing more than an "Occidental variant of ancestor worship...
...widen the scope of the fair-employment section of the 1946 Civil Rights Act to include public employees. This would be aimed particularly at integrating employment in state courts and police forces. Congress could base such a law on its power to enforce the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...
...Congress should move to integrate the all-white jury system of Southern states. First, it should establish uniform jury standards for both federal and state courts. (Again, the Fourteenth Amendment would empower Washington to legislate for state courts.) Since age and residence are now sufficient qualifications for voting, it would be illogical if jury-service qualifications were any more stringent...