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...graduate students. Judging from the administration of past standards of this sort at Harvard (e.g. in staff tuition scholarships) the effect on those who want to live slightly above the prescribed standard will be to give them an incentive either to lie on their financial forms or to abandon scholarship aid altogether by seeking outside employment which interrupts their studies...
...believe it should alarm people that deprogrammers can operate freely without the intervention of the law. It certainly would arouse college students if a Harvard SDS member were kidnapped and returned two weeks later as an ardent John Bircher. If some 600 young people have successfully been forced to abandon their religious beliefs and convictions, what will hinder this number from climbing many times more? And what prevents the deprogrammers or similar groups from expanding their tactics to political groups? It is important that the authorities intervene today to stop such openly-connessed criminal activity as abduction, unlawful imprisonment...
...selected by Nixon as acting director because of, above all else, that subservience. And it is his devotion to Nixon that has created the nomination controversy and has thrust the President and the Senate toward another classic collision over their respective powers. Nixon may well be forced to abandon the nomination, or he may persuade Gray to withdraw?something that anyone who respects the chain of command as Gray does would obligingly...
...although Gray's zeal sounds extreme. It is not at all appropriate, however, in a police official whose agency prides itself on arriving objectively at facts. A political police force is obviously anathema to a democracy. It may well have been asking far too much to expect Gray to abandon such deeply held attitudes after he was shifted...
Eckstein explained that his commitment to Data Resources seems to have mushroomed and that he could not now abandon his ties to the firm...