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Heretofore, the educational authorities of the city colleges abused their freedom to disapprove. This fall, Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Brooklyn college delayed a speech by Mark Lane, a New York State Assemblyman who was indicted in Mississippi for his actions as a Freedom Rider; and Queens College revoked student invitations to Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslims, and to Benjamin Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party. (The ban on Davis provoked the discredited October 26 ruling...
...public a decision to refuse to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Queens College has vetoed student invitations to Black Muslim leader Malcolm X and to Benjamin J. Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; and Brooklyn College has put off a scheduled speech by State Assemblyman Mark Lane, because he had been arrested as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi...
Other recent speech cancellations have also provoked protest. Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslim movement, was prohibited from speaking on the Queens College campus; Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the National Review; and Brooklyn College delayed the speech of State Assemblyman Mark Lane, whose arrest as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi reportedly cast doubts over the propriety of his speaking under college auspices...
...mysteriously been disqualified. None were allowed access to electoral rolls; election officials told monarchist candidates that their nomination papers had been filed "one minute too late." Only 59 opposition candidates managed to win government approval. So sure were Salazar's men of re-election that one National Assemblyman toured the U.S. throughout the campaign. After all, his opponent was in jail...
...Brown-McCarthy fight actually went far beyond a dispute about drunken drivers. As a veteran California assemblyman and state senator. McCarthy is a powerful Democrat whose ambitions probably do not stop short of the Governor's mansion. Brown long ago promised McCarthy the job of state attorney general -just as soon as he could appoint the incumbent. Stanley Mosk. to the California supreme court. But, as usual, Brown dithered, reconsidered-and backed away from his promise. McCarthy's reaction was his party-splitting resignation...