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Harvard's International Office will soon launch a campaign to remove the legal barriers which prohibit many foreign students' wives from working in this country...
...when he does-but the U.S. brokers are always on the phone with suggestions and send out as many as eight research reports a month. Many governments restrict trading in U.S. stocks; Britain imposes a 4¼% tax on it, and countries as diverse as Chile and Denmark flatly prohibit it. Imaginative investors, however, usually can slide around the restrictions. The main reason for their interest is that, despite the recent weakness, the U.S. stock market has had a longer and stronger upswing than any other in the world-and foreign investors want to buy a piece of the expansive...
...supporting the motion for dismissal, Crane said that DeGuglielmo had agreed not to collect salary pending the outcome of a taxpayers suit against him. Crane predicted that the Court would permanently prohibit DeGuglielmo from collecting salary on the grounds that he receives a city pension, and that a pensioner cannot receive a salary. DeGuglielmo has said he will waive the pension; Crane has said the court will not permit that...
...bill, introduced into the House by nine state representatives, would amend two nineteenth-century statutes forbidding any individual or group to sell or publicize means of birth control. Those statutes, unlike the Connecticut law recently overturned by the Supreme Court, do not expressly prohibit the use of contraceptives...
...most telling argument for the Wolfenden rule is that the present statutes are unenforceable anyway as long as the homosexual acts are performed in private (many of the laws also prohibit the same acts between man and wife). In effect, the arrests that are now made are for public or semipublic acts, including "soliciting," with homosexuals often trapped by plainclothesmen posing as deviates. There is also a constant opportunity for blackmail and for shakedowns by real or phony cops, a practice known as "gayola." Advocates of the Wolfenden position argue further that persecution by society only renders the neurotic homosexual...