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...Pool (D-Tex.) also introduced a bill which would impose a $20,000 fine or 20 years in prison on anyone who impedes a member of the armed forces or aids any organization giving support to hostile forces. Arnold Locksnin, secretary of the Massachusetts Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, last night expressed doubts that this bill would pass...
...professors feel that any direct action to abolish HUAC would have to come from within the House itself, but what they hope to do is to cause enough protest within the House to make the Committee feel that its procedures are being watched...
...responsive and responsible to the will of the voter. If neither excess is inconceivable today, neither safeguard is wholly necessary or suitable to contemporary America. Last week, as he promised in his State of the Union address, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to amend the Constitution so as to abolish the Electoral College and give Representatives four-year terms...
Eight tutors finally crystallized their complaints into a set of proposals. They evolved a plan to combine sophomore and junior tutorials into one two-year course, but eventually abandoned that in favor of a request to make sophomore tutorial more specialized and to abolish the sophomore essay...
...fourth session of the Second Vatican Council, a number of bishops and theologians suggested that it was high time to reform or even abolish the church's ancient system of indulgences. For performing certain pious acts, such as visiting churches or reciting prayers, penitent Catholics can get dispensations for part or all of the time that they would otherwise have to spend in Purgatory suffering for their sins...