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...mountains go, Antarctica's Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the continent, but it is still lower than ten mountains in North America. For an accomplished alpinist, the hike to the summit would seem like a Sunday stroll -if only it weren't for a couple of complications...
...ignore the appropriations-last week's bill "mandates" him to use the funds for the Navy's frigates. If enacted, it could result in an unprecedented constitutional impasse between the executive and legislative branches. The committee tried the same maneuver in 1962 under Rivers' predecessor, Carl Vinson, but the Administration was able to muster enough strength to persuade Vinson to back down...
Earlier this week the Justice Department announced that it agrees with the students. In a letter to a group of law professors, Fred M. Vinson Jr., Assistant Attorney General argued that the students should be punished under the general law rather than under the draft laws...
...Vinson added that if the students challenge the reclassification in civil court, the Justice Department would not support the Selective Service...
While defending the right of the draft boards to reclassify those who violate the Selective Service laws, Vinson said that in this case the draft laws were not involved and that reclassification was therefore not an appropriate punishment...