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...worried primarily about the "parallelism" aspects of the Act, accord- ing to Peter Orris '67, an organizer of the protest. Among the criteria to be used by the SACB in deciding whether a group is communist-affiliated is "the extent to which the positions taken or advanced by it from time to time on matters of policy do not deviate from those of any communist-action organizations, communist foreign governments, or the world communist movement...
...name a few high school friends who "should have" been admitted. Convincing himself that he deserved his letter of acceptance is difficult for the Harvard freshman. Everyone admits that the community which he is entering provides few universally-accepted standards. In groups seem to reject each other's criteria: group standing, athletic prowess or membership in a final club are hardly respected...
Field's "Seraglio" isn't particularly good, but it's fun to read. Even when the narrator gets morassed in Truth, the prose is crisp: "my reason had long since flown the strict cage of its criteria." And though the connection between the incidents is obscure, they are strikingly recounted...
...toward the rear-ready to fire should he spot a potential assassin aiming at the President from behind, as Lee Harvey Oswald did. Before Kennedy was killed, Secret Service files with names of persons potentially dangerous to the President contained no more than 400 names; now, thanks to broadened criteria for including names, those same Secret Service files list some 8,000 people, including every person who has defected from the U.S. to Russia and then come home, as Oswald...
...from the Dallas-Fort Worth area was on the Secret Service's "serious risk" list. The FBI had a bulky folder on Oswald, but it did not bother to tip off the Secret Service. Says the Commission: "The FBI had no official responsibility, under the Secret Service criteria existing at the time of the President's trip, to refer to the Secret Service the information it had about Oswald. The Commission has concluded, however, that the FBI took an unduly restrictive view of its role in preventive intelligence work prior to the assassination." Adds the Commission: "The Secret Service...