Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale was deeply embarrassed a year ago when Kingman Brewster, then acting president, persuaded students to cancel a speaking invitation to Alabama's Governor George Wallace; and now "the administration suffers in agonizing silence rather than tamper with free speech and action" says Yale Daily News Chairman Alexander Sharp. When Princeton undergraduates invited Alger Hiss to the campus in 1956, prompting hundreds of irate letters from alumni, then-President Harold Willis Dodds refused to intervene. "We have sought to resolve this problem not in terms of academic freedom, but in the deeper terms of human freedom," he said...
...year. His Caribair plane had barely set down at St. Thomas Island's airport when Humphrey burst past his Secret Service guards and began grabbing hands in the enthusiastic crowd. He made a speech, then went with his family to Laurance Rockefeller's beach house at Cancel Bay Plantation, a resort on St. John Island. There, he changed into shorts, sports shirt and straw...
...than Dej to please the new Russian leadership. Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka allowed himself to be talked out of his misgivings over Khrushchev's fall, was quick to endorse B. & K. Gomulka wants to preserve his country's relative "Liberalism" and fears that a final split would cancel his freedom of action. The Polish public, however, fears that a détente with China might encourage the influential Stalinist elements that lurk within the Polish Communist Party...
...chisel and . . . What follows is a custody battle, some gamy dialogue, and numerous untidy revelations, none of them very interesting. "With you," observes one of Susan's playmates, "art and sex go hand in hand." Maybe so. But in movies like Where Love Has Gone, they efficiently cancel each other...
...rights along with the Union Jack. Accepting the inevitable, the company agreed to turn over its rights to the new government, but held out for fair compensation. When the British government failed in its efforts to arrange a settlement, Zambian Finance Minister Arthur Wina angrily flew home, threatening to cancel all mineral rights immediately after independence...