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Matlovich, now 32, was deliberately provoking a discharge from the Air Force in order to challenge the military's long-standing ban on homosexuals (TIME, June 9). Indeed, his lawyers hope the case will reach the Supreme Court and produce a landmark decision on homosexual rights comparable to the court's historic school integration decision of 1954. It is a perfect test case. The tall, red-haired sergeant has an impeccable twelve-year military record, no known psychiatric problems, and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart won on one of his three tours in Viet Nam. A five...
...another extravaganza that seemed more important for political show business than for substance. Unlike the Congress of Vienna (see box page 18), the Helsinki congress -the final phase of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)-will probably not be remembered by history as much of a landmark. Its main official business will be the signing of a 100-page, 30,000-word joint declaration that is known so far as simply the "Final...
...Papers rarely stray into the crabby waters of hard news, but for years Rattiner has been campaigning to save the 1795 Montauk Lighthouse from demolition. The lighthouse was finally designated an official landmark, and this month a citizens' group presented a proud Rattiner with a plaque inscribed IN APPRECIATION. Notes Rattiner wryly: "For what, it doesn...
Died. Richard P. Loving, 42, a Virginia construction worker whose marriage to his Indian-Negro childhood sweetheart led to a landmark civil rights ruling; in an auto accident; in Caroline County, Va. Routed from bed at 2 a.m. five weeks after their 1958 marriage, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in jail or 25 years of exile from the state for violating Virginia's antimiscegenation laws. After five hardscrabble years in Washington, D.C., they chose to return home and fight the statute, winning in 1967 the Supreme Court's ruling in Lovings v. Virginia that voided...
John has compiled a staggering set of statistics. With an annual income of $7 million, he is one of the most prosperous pop stars on the scene today. He signed a landmark deal in recording history when MCA Records last year guaranteed him $8 million in royalties against all the albums he produces in the next five years. The company could recoup its entire investment by the end of 1976. John has sold 42 million albums and 18 million singles worldwide; nine of his twelve albums are over the million mark in the U.S. alone, often with several hundred thousand...