Word: californians
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Such official attempts to silence student publications are not new. In the past year, bureaucrat censors have imposed censorship on the Daily Texan at the University of Texas and forced the resignation of three editors of the Daily Californian at Berkeley. Palo Alto police ransacked the offices of the Stanford Daily in an attempt to confiscate pictures to use as evidence against a group of demonstrators. Many college functionaries--like BC's President W. Seavey Joyce--and public officials--like Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn, who prosecuted the Heights editors--apparently believe that freedom of the press is a right...
Such official attempts to silence student publications are not new. In the past year, bureaucrat-censors have imposed censorship on the Daily Texan at the University of Texas and forced the resignation of three editors of the Daily Californian at Berkeley. Palo Alto police ransacked the offices of the Stanford Daily in an attempt to confiscate pictures to use as evidence against a group of demonstrators. Many college functionaries--like BC's President W. Seavey Joyce--and public officials--like Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn, who prosecuted the Heights editors--apparently believe that freedom of the press is a right...
Reston also tried to explain President Nixon to the Premier: "He is a Californian, and he looks to the Pacific in the way that we who live on the other side of the continent do not." Moreover, said Reston, "I think he is a romantic, and I think he is dead serious about China, where he sees a historic role." Replied Chou politely: "Thank you for providing me with this information...
...John Schmitz, who represents Nixon's home district in California, had been invited to cruise the Potomac aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia, but he announced that he was "breaking all relations with the White House" until the President "reverses this decision and apologizes for having made it." Another Californian, former Marine Captain George Brokate, publicly threw into a trash can a plaque of appreciation he had received from Nixon for donating $13,000 to his successful presidential campaign. He denounced Nixon as "just another tricky weather vane opportunist politician...
During the bidding, an anonymous Californian bid $5,000 for a case of rare Inglenook wine from the Napa Valley, by far the highest price ever paid for domestic produce. New York Restaurateur Joseph Santo paid $12,100 for a 55-case collection of French, German and American wines, which until recently was reserved by Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel for the exclusive sipping of visiting Presidents. After the headlining items had been displayed by a brocaded, powder-wigged chamberlain and sold, connoisseurs and individual collectors were able to bid on the less celestial vintages: a case...