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That evening at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, as guests of the Admiralty, it was Khrushchev's turn to talk. The "only way out" of the present world situation, Khrushchev suggested, is "to give up war altogether" and "ultimately to abolish armed forces." Entering the college, B. & K. had been rudely greeted by a loudspeaker from across the river Thames: "Here come Marshal Bulganin and Khrushchev. They are here to destroy mankind and disrupt our Empire." The voice was that of a member of the League of Empire Loyalists which, earlier in the week, had presented Prime Minister...
...athletes moved into fraternity houses or stayed with friends; a hastily elected committee of twelve, under Varsity End Dan Coyle, went to Crisp with an ultimatum: abolish the bed checks for athletes whose sport is not in season, grant unlimited weekend privileges, cancel the four-hour compulsory study rule. Otherwise, said the athletes, they would not go back to Friedman Hall and they would not even play for Alabama...
...excellent record in civil rights. The late Maurice J. Tobin, former Governor and later Secretary of Labor under President Truman, was a prime mover in the creation of the state Fair Employment Practices Commission, while the Hon. James L. O'Dea, Jr., House Majority Whip, led the fight to abolish segregation in the state National Guard. The civil rights stand adopted at our convention called upon the Massachusetts delegates to the Democratic National Convention "to fight for a strong Civil Rights plank in the party's National Platform...
...contest at the local level, by individual school districts, or by a county, or on a community basis, we are sitting ducks and will be picked off one by one . . . The state and no one but the state can segregate under the police powers . . . The state, if necessary, can abolish school districts, create other ones and thus remove the corpus or basis of a suit. This would mean the whole case just start over, with years' delay...
Obviously the ideal solution would be enough scholarship funds to pay the full expenses of everybody who is admissible to the college and cannot pay his own bills. But lacking these resources, the University still needs to do some rethinking of outdated principles, and abolish the double standard of performance for solvent and insolvent students...