Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toot the trumpet to assemble such erstwhile Camelot trusties as Salinger, Ted Sorensen, Lawrence O'Brien, Kenneth O'Donnell, Dick Goodwin. Most of the oldtimers are even working without pay, although, as Rose Kennedy has pointed out, money is no object. For a bodyguard, he retained Bill Barry, a former FBI agent who happens to be a New York City bank vice president...
...issue that set off the demonstrations was a government bill under discussion in the Bundestag that provided for the curtailment of constitutional guarantees during a national emergency. Under the law, the Bundestag would be able to declare a "state of emergency," permitting the government to: 1) draft men over 18 who are eligible for military service into civilian defense units, 2) draft women up to age 55 into "hospital" units, 3) order persons to remain at their jobs, 4) requisition private vehicles, and 5) engage in wiretapping and interception of mail when there is a "justified" suspicion of treason...
...such powers have been reserved to the three Western allies under the terms of a 1955 treaty. Supporters of the bill claim that the new law would only make Germans the masters of their own house in times of national emergency. But students and other opponents insist that, despite many safeguards in the bill, the new law could lead to a repetition of 1933, when Hitler, invoking broad executive powers long since done away with, suspended the Weimar Constitution and made him self a dictator...
...bill went through its second reading at week's end, the demonstrations lost some of their steam. The third and final reading, at which time the bill would become law, is scheduled for next week, and passage seems almost certain. On the same day, however, the Socialist German Students' League has called for a general strike, hoping that labor will-at last-come around to its side...
...appointment of Bob ("Pappy") Hunt as an assistant to Stowell and varsity coach Bill McCurdy was announced by Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of athletics, at Sunday's annual track banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston...