Word: toughener
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...Court reminded Congress that it has full power to toughen the law. But even if it does not, many legal experts feel that the ruling will not encourage wholesale new draft dodging. For one thing, the decision does not affect the status of a man who flees to Canada to avoid either registration or induction; he can be prosecuted whenever he returns. And few U.S. males are likely to regard the threat of criminal prosecution as any less real because it is limited to five, instead of 13 years. Concludes U.C.L.A. Law Professor Michael Tigar, "It's simply...
...remains wracked by internal dissension and severe economic troubles. Mao undoubtedly hopes that China's xenophobic feelings about the Russians will serve as a unifying force in the country. He is also using the war scare as justification for one of his favorite and most controversial policies: to toughen the "pampered lords and ladies" of the cities by sending them to rural areas, where they will be put to work on farms and in local factories...
Precision, polished technique, and stamina will come with practice, and it should come fairly soon, because the Crimson has the material for a superb squad. But the question remains whether Harvard can unify and toughen itself in time for Saturday's match with Brown, a perennial rugby power...
...typewriter. Those who knew him best preferred the private Pegler. "Somebody should take the hide off Peg," wrote Fellow Columnist Heywood Broun when Pegler was on top, "because the stuff inside is so much better than the varnished surface." Pegler's professional hide seemed mainly to toughen as he grew older. When it finally cracked under the pressure of lawsuits and frustration over his advocacy of lost causes, only anger spilled...
...laws regulating the sale or advertising of cigarettes. Bills calling for more controls have been put forward by 54 sponsors in the House. Most of the bills are similar to a measure sponsored by the leading opponent of cigarettes in the House, California Democrat John Moss. He would toughen the cigarette label and order it into all ads, as the FTC urges, and he would also empower the commission to limit the length of cigarettes. That would probably shorten the future of the new 100-mm. cigarettes, which generally have more tar and nicotine than the king-sized brands...