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Faculty members blanch at the cry of radicals that the CRR is useful only as a means of stifling political dissent. But since its conception this Fall the CRR has heard charges against: 20 SDS members for the Nov. 19 sit-in at University Hall; 36 blacks and four whites for the Dec. 5 and 11 occupations of University Hall by OBU; 20 students for the April 9 demonstration at the CFIA: and 56 students for militant picketing outside University Hall Monday...
Temper of the Times. The virus takes a toll that may make some playgoers blanch. There are three bloody beatings in which one boy has an eye gouged out and another is strung up dangling from the chapel cross. At play's end, one of the three teachers has been driven to his death...
...racial philosophy makes very little sense. I don't see how it could work." Secretary of Housing and Urban Development George Romney got off easily, as did Presidential Assistant Daniel P. Moynihan. "Bob," Evans said, "I think those fat-cat Republicans at the Union League Club would probably blanch if they watched Dr. Moynihan talking the way he did to us." Moynihan had proposed a $9 billion federal grant for family allowances...
...mouth belongs to Coach Emile ("The Cat") Francis, 41, a diminutive ex-goalie who patrols the Ranger bench during games, screaming profanities that would make a dock-walloper blanch. "Cash and cussing" is the way one Ranger describes Francis' coaching methods: players who turn in exceptional performances find something extra in their pay envelopes; those who let down get a stinging spray of verbal vitriol. Last season, after a lackadaisical game against Montreal, Francis announced that a "television deal" was in the offing. The players' faces brightened. "Yeah," sneered the coach, "the Red Skelton show needs some sloppy
...share their bishops' feeling that a trial was out of order. However much they may wince at his gaucheries or blanch at his glib demythologizing of church teachings, plenty of theologians agree with what Pike is trying to do, if not with the way he does it. Pike, says Episcopal Bishop Stephen Bayne, a member of the committee that drafted the statement, "has awakened a lot of people to the fact that a lot of theology is wordmongering-and that there is nothing behind the words." Cambridge University Theologian Hugh Montefiore admires Pike for "putting aside the intricacies...