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Several times in the history of Harvard there have been frontal and indirect attacks on freedom of thought, Buck noted. He cited as examples the restriction of anti-slavery discussion a century ago and more recently the attempt to prohibit Dunster House students from reading Norman Douglas' "South Wind...
...Defense Department had previously asked Truman for $23 billion to keep up an Army of 900,000, as authorized by Congress. Truman announced a $15 billion limit a month ago and quoted a slightly lower figure in today's message...
When Conductor (and Cellist) Barbirolli and his oboe-playing British wife Evelyn Rothwell packed aboard a Portuguese freighter in New York five years ago, his musical stock was ankle low. At 37, a youngster as conductors go, he had made the tactical mistake of following Arturo Toscanini to a podium that had taken all of the Maestro's fire and ice to control. As boss of the proud, 106-year-old New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Barbirolli had neither Toscanini's precise beat nor his fearsome bearing. The musicians were soon in a state of anarchy. Barbirolli left unhappily...
...Present record: John Cobb's 394.196 m.p.h., set a year ago...
Ballots cast for Michael A. Sullivan a year ago November will be recounted to determine an immediate successor for the late councilman...