25 YEARS AGO.

• Position: Brief Article - Column

NOVEMBER 1975

"In a controversial test case, an administrative board recommended on September 19 that Leonard Matlovich, a veteran of 12 years in the Air Force and three tours in Vietnam, be discharged from the Air Force because he is homosexual. After the decision was announced Matlovich...held up a bicentennial half-dollar and said, 'It says 200 years of freedom. Not yet--it will be some day.'"

--Manuel S. Klausner, "Publisher's Notes"

* "[The Sierra] Club sought to challenge the Forest Service's grant of development rights to Disney for the Mineral King Valley and was rebuffed by the courts on the ground that it lacked standing to litigate the issue...[A law professor] proposes a quantum leap in juridical science: The Mineral King Valley itself should be...