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Members of two college accrediting agencies, charged with enforcing the American Council on Education's new athletic code, recently indicated that they cannot comply. This decision will have no bearing on Ivy League intentions to abolish spring football practice and prohibit participation in post season games...
...your brief reference to Governor Adlai E. Stevenson's veto message concerning the notorious anti-cat measure [a bird lovers' bill "to prohibit cats from running at large" in Illinois]: I wish to state that The American Feline Society, Inc. played no small part in this legislative battle which could have conceivably cost the lives of 5 millions of Illinois cats...
...only action taken by University Hall after the Council publicized its findings was to prohibit scholarship holders from using the tutoring schools without official consent...
Though his life seems to be all work, Stevenson nevertheless manages to get some fun out of it. When the legislature handed him a bird lovers' bill to prohibit cats from running at large, he vetoed it with the comment: "It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming ... In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency...
...successful against the N.F.L., the Justice Department will go after college football, professional basketball boxing and other sports. The suit asked the United States District Court in Philadelphia to prohibit N.F.L. restrictions...