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...Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union is preparing to mobilize University support for an upcoming nation-wide campaign to abolish the House Committee on American Activities. Reports, still unconfirmed, that the HUAC will conduct hearings in Boston this spring have spurred their action...
...HRLU and chairman of the Union's Civil Liberties Committee, said yesterday that his committee was organized after Burton White leader of the San Francisco demonstrations against the HUAC in May, 1960, visited the University this fall. White is now chairman of the Bay Area Committee to Abolish the HUAC...
...Kennedy finally severed the Democratic Party's emotional ties to silver. Moving to abandon F.D.R.'s 1933 silver-support program. Kennedy last week ordered the Treasury to stop its sales of stockpiled silver at an arbitrary 91? an ounce. Simultaneously, the President opened a drive to abolish the practice of backing U.S. currency with silver as well as gold, which was adopted in the early days of the Republic...
...corporation committee would recommend abolition of the fraternities." Apparently many members of the administration hope that, "without intervention by the university, the fraternity system may die out--or at least wane significantly." Such an attitude, coupled with what is almost a fear on the part of Brown officials to abolish the fraternities outright, does not promise much hope for the effective House system envisaged by the student report...
...official count yesterday on the referendum to abolish PR was 16,331 against and 15,875 in favor. It was the fourth time that supporters of the Plan E electoral system had beaten their opponents in 20 years. This was also the slimmest margin of victory...