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...certainly hoped so. "This is a great opportunity for us," said Conservative Leader Ted Heath to 4,000 cheering delegates at Blackpool. "The Tory Party has always been the party which enables people to live fruitfully in freedom." Other Tories rose to underscore Heath's claim, pledging to abolish the controls that the Laborites are imposing. They promised, for example, to denationalize the steel industry if the Labor government makes good its pledge to renationalize it. Similarly, the Tories vowed to repeal Wilson's Selective Employment Tax and rescind recent tax hikes. When and if the whirlwind does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Establishing an Alternative | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...defending champions used their favorite 6-1 score to abolish Dartmouth's fabled defense, at Hanover yet. Harvard, the Ivies' only other undefeated team, remained in second place with its 3-0 whitewash of Cornell...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Booters Pursue League-Leading Bruins | 10/20/1966 | See Source »

...ought," mused House Minority Whip Les Arends, "to pass a law to abolish the last couple of weeks of the session." In the frenetic atmosphere of the waning 89th Congress, such a bill might even stand a good chance of passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: That Fenced-ln Feeling | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Professional or Political? Mainly to meet faculty objections, Penn President Gaylord P. Harnwell announced that he will abolish the institute, which had coordinated all defense contracts, although existing contracts will be completed. In the future, the university will push for the right to publish all contracted research and, under a faculty proposal that has administration backing, whenever agreement cannot be reached, Harnwell will seek the advice of an eight-man faculty advisory committee on whether to proceed on a contract. Penn Provost David R. Goddard explained, however, that the university will accept secret work during a national emergency and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Secret Research at Penn | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard, members of SDS, SNCC, and the Massachusetts Committee to abolish HUAC are making plans to protest the subpoenas and have expressed concern that they "might be next on the list...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 8 Protesters Called Before HUAC Board | 8/9/1966 | See Source »

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