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...defensemen Don Turcotte and Ron Jeanneault, one of the best tandems around, have played together for ten years--at Northeastern and at their home in Kapuskasing, Ontario. Goulie Gary Thornton, another Ontario junior, has rounded into top form since the Brown game. He will anchor a defense which is stiffer than either Bowdoin's or St. Nicholas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Northeastern to Challenge Untested Harvard Icemen | 12/8/1965 | See Source »

...addition, the commission recommends a far stiffer federal personal-security law, based on congressional power to regulate interstate commerce and enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. Finally, when local officials fail to act, the commission urges federal trials of racial crimes that violate state laws-thus removing such cases to federal juries that are picked from wider geographical areas. If the past is any guide, the outlook for these reforms is bright. In the commission's eight-year history, 75% of its recommendations have been adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Courts: How to Reform Southern Justice | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Fish. Prodded by stiffer laws and sterner enforcement - this year 18 states adopted air-pollution bills, 19 en acted water-pollution legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: Purifying the Effluent Society | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...debate over student testimony before the Administrative Board may end up in the Faculty, and if students are allowed to testify, it could result in stiffer penalties in disciplinary cases, Dean Monro declared yesterday...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Board Testimony May Hurt Students--Monro | 11/4/1965 | See Source »

Pittenger also pointed out that players are more likely to develop their skills in big-time football colleges than in the Ivy League. The Ivy League ban on spring practice and the pressures of stiffer academic requirements cut into the time that a player can spend on the practice field...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: The Pros: Ivies Need Not Apply | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

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