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...Each has its own plant, its own staff and even its own editorial course. In 1958, for example, the Enquirer endorsed Republican C. William O'Neill for Ohio Governor, while the Post plumped for Democrat Mike Di Salle. Separation was part of a calculated Scripps-Howard effort to allay suspicions of monopoly, and to demonstrate that competition can flourish even in a one-ownership newspaper town. Last week Scripps-Howard's Ohio stronghold was under Government siege. In a suit filed in Federal District Court in Cincinnati, the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division demanded that...
Dean Ford sought to allay, however, the fear of at least one alumnus who called him last November to protest a rumor that Cliffies had taken over as Harvard cheerleaders. "The Radcliffe pom-pom girl is a long way off," he said Friday...
Already, credit courses in dramatics are being proposed for consideration. Assurances that these will have "solid academic cores" do not allay fears that within a short time credit courses in journalism will also be under consideration. All might be acceptable as non-credit offerings (like the courses in bartending given by the Student Employment Office); there is no place for them in the course catalogue of Harvard College...
...CRIMSON argued that there are no effective restraints on HSA to protect the interests of the University. Neither the Dean's recitation of the board of directors (mostly, it seemed, local businessmen, past or present officers of HSA, or its founders), nor his charges of "lie" did much to allay my personal misgivings. As he is probably aware, the task of a board of directors is usually to promote rather than to restrain a corporation...
Because children of different age groups suffer different sorts of psychological problems about nuclear warfare, their parents must be prepared to use different methods to allay their fears, argues the pamphlet's author. Psychologist Sibylle Escalona of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. But one problem is common to all parents and all children: nuclear war hazards are particularly difficult to discuss because parents know so little about them. And the one thing that all youngsters want, from kindergarten through adolescence, is certainty...