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PRINCETON-COLUMBIA--Last weekend the Lions and Bucknell played in the "Egg Bowl." I call that partly because the final score was 0-0, and partly because neither team could have broken an egg blocking or tackling. Princeton bombed out against Rutgers. This contest is the null set of the weekend. Princeton 10, Columbia...
Similarly, Brandt's famed Ostpolitik has lately met with obduracy from East European leaders. The Poles are reneging on their agreement to repatriate thousands of ethnic Germans. The Czechs refuse to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations until Bonn denounces as null and void from the start the 1938 Munich Agreement that ceded part of Czechoslovakia to the Third Reich. Hungary, in turn, will not deal with West Germany until it first complies with Prague's demands...
...case, Marcos has already made it clear that for the moment he does not want to be bothered by any legislative body. While announcing the new constitution, he declared that one of its key provisions-the immediate convening of an interim national assembly-was null and void. For the present, Ferdinand Marcos alone will act as President, Premier and Parliament of the Philippines...
...psychological life has faded is no less sundered than a union ended by the death of one of the partners. In his new book Power to Dissolve (Belknap Press, Harvard; $15), Lawyer-Philosopher John T. Noonan Jr. indicates that the church's conception of what makes a marriage null has been fluid rather than fixed throughout the eight-century evolution of canon law. Writes Noonan: "Neither the theoretical construct of marriage nor the express texts of Scripture, neither the absence of precedent nor the desire for uniformity, has barred innovation in the past." Noonan speaks for many Catholics when...
Judicial authorities have still not ruled whether all of the Corkery judgements are null and void...