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...this movement afoot in the Christian society to abolish the expensive, massive and majestic cathedrals [Jan. 12]. In this day and age of constant stimuli, of incessant noise and overpopulation with pressing, vulgar crowds it is indeed unfortunate. Heretofore they represented one of the few remaining places where a man could go to think quietly, in relative safety-and be alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1968 | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...long-range impact on Danish mores, which are already among Europe's most liberal. But since the law was passed, there has been no marked increase in sex-related crimes, illegitimate pregnancies, homosexuality, venereal disease or even marriage. That being so, the government is next planning to abolish all censorship of movies and pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: And No Ban for Danes | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...bill becomes law, civil rights and abolish-HUAC groups advocate a virulent campaign against the SACB, while moderates feel an attitude of ridicule would be more effective. These moderates argue that a full-scale campaign might only give the SACB the publicity it needs to carry out another witchhunt...

Author: By Robert C. Pozen, | Title: Which McCarthy? | 1/9/1968 | See Source »

...Committee on Educational Policy has decided not to abolish the language requirement and not to retain it in its present from...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: CEP Vote Keeps Languages Rule | 1/4/1968 | See Source »

Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) plans to propose a bill early in the 1968 Senate session that would abolish this protection. But unless American casualties in Vietnam reach a level that can be universally regarded as catastrophic, his bill has little chance of passage. Congress voted last summer to keep undergraduate deferments in the face of both the President's Draft Commission's recommendation to abolish them as well as the statement of U.S. Commissioner of Education, Harold Howe, that he considered them "unjustified." The current American dream is to send one's sons to college, and -- barring...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: The Draft: What To Expect | 12/19/1967 | See Source »

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