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Reaction to the case from women's groups has mostly favored the elimination of the existing registration program, but opponents to the Equal Rights Amendment have defended the males-only signup, warning of a threat to society if women are ever forced into military service...
...opponents of just such a plan were preparing to wage war on it. Late last week, as 35,000 post offices were getting ready to receive the first wave of a tide of 4 million initial registrants-all male citizens and resident aliens born in 1960 and 1961-the signup foes won what could prove to be a short-lived victory in the courts. Ruling on an antidraft suit originally brought by four anti-Viet Nam youths in 1971, two years before induction was ended, a panel of three federal judges in Philadelphia "permanently enjoined" the Government from requiring anyone...
...speculator as ever cashed a three-horse parlay, hemmed and hawed about the new soil-bank program served up by Congress in late May, consulted his form charts and then made his decision: a heavy bet on the soil bank to win. Last week, the deadline for the 1956 signup past, the Agriculture Department reported that nearly 500,000 farmers had agreed to take 10,720,749 acres out of production, would thereby reap a cash harvest of $225 million in Government payments come fall. The 1956 bank balance more than satisfied Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who had reckoned...
...blood drive got under way yesterday afternoon as flyers were slipped under every door in the University. The leaflets, appealing on the basis of the emergency situation, are also a signup blank for those interested. The Blood Drive Committee has placed deposit boxes for the blanks in every University dining ball. Actual donations will take place at PBH November...
Committee members and house captains will slip signup blanks under every door in the University this afternoon and will place deposit boxes for them in all dining halls tonight. Solicitors will also canvass tomorrow afternoon...