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...Vern Countryman, professor of Law, said that the Carswell defeat "sort of revitalizes my faith." Countryman, another active opponent of Carswell at the Law School, was guardedly hopeful about Nixon's next choice for the Court...
...personal discouragement. The effects on three typical families: THE MACHINIST. In Seattle, where widespread unemployment creates a here-today, gone-tomorrow mood, the current definition of an optimist is a Boeing worker who brings his lunch to the job. One man who can appreciate that grim joke is Vern Higgins, 44, a precision machinist at Boeing until last month, when he was laid off after eight years on the job. Higgins grossed $168 a week; now he collects exactly $168 once a month in state unemployment compensations. From that, Higgins pays $108 on the small suburban house in which...
...Wherever you go, they won't even talk to you most of the time." At one company, he filled out an application but found that 50 to 75 men had already been there. The Higgins family hopes to keep its house, though Vern says: "I have heard about others with less equity in homes out here who have just walked away from them in the last 30 days." THE STEELWORKER. "When things started slowing down. I knew I'd get it," says Ray Russo, 29, a veteran of U.S. Steel's Irvin Works near Pittsburgh. Because...
...faculty noted its availability for consultation with the Administration. Dean Derek C. Bok appointed Vern Countryman, professor of Law, Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, and Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, to the new committe set up by the Corporation last night. Two law students will be selected later to join the committee...
Five hundred students and faculty crowded Ames Courtroom yesterday afternoon for a colloquium on disruptive dissent and University decision-making. Vern Countryman, professor of Law, told the audience "Any rational man could have predicted precisely what happened when he was told that police from Cambridge and Somerville, among other places, had been summoned. Those forces had been waiting for that opportunity for at least 100 years," he said...