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...succession of small Illinois towns: Tampico, where he was born on Feb. 6,1911, Galesburg, Monmouth and Dixon. As a freshman at 250-student Eureka College, a Disciples of Christ school, he was one of the leaders of a week-long student strike that forced college officials to rescind cuts in the educational program and loosen puritanical rules that forbade smoking, drinking and dancing. An indifferent student, he concentrated on debating, dramatics and football...
...required 38 states have ratified the 1972 amendment, but the early momentum is gone. Twenty-two state legislatures ratified it the first year, eight in 1973, three in 1974. So far this year, only one state-North Dakota -has approved ERA. Nebraska and Tennessee have voted to rescind their earlier approval, though the legal status of their action is dubious. Congress has the authority to disregard such votes and has done so once in the past. Still, both sides in the ERA struggle expect the issue to reach the Supreme Court. The victorious anti-ERA forces in New York...
...There's no way we can rescind the tuition increase and the scholarship increase is already approved," he said...
...Cambridge City Council at a meeting attended by about 200 public employees, voted last night to request City Manager James L. Sullivan to rescind his demand that city workers take a 5-per-cent pay cut this year...
Milk Cartons. Despite the protests, T.U.C. General Secretary Len Murray refused to rescind the invitation. To keep potential demonstrators off balance, the T.U.C. would not disclose when Shelepin's Aeroflot jet would arrive or where he would go. Worried that the Soviet labor leader might be attacked or even assassinated, security agents later dispatched a stand-in resembling the short, heavy-set Russian in a decoy Daimler limousine. He took the brunt of a barrage of umbrellas, milk cartons, bricks and Passover cookies, as the real Shelepin slipped into T.U.C. headquarters through the tradesmen's entrance...