Word: davises
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Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt are not the only ones; what Jewish Journalist Gershon Jacobson calls a "rash of conversions" to Judaism is under way in the U.S., with more than 2,000 Christians a year trading New Testaments for Old.
In part, the Association's letter stated that the banned speakers, Benjamin J. Davis, Secretary of the United States Communist Party, and Malcolm X, "should be heard by students who have actively expressed their interest in examining American Communist and Black Muslim viewpoints. Confrontation with these views may require students...
(Meanwhile, Mr. Davis reports that he has been deluged with requests to appear on radio, television, and to speak at colleges all over the country. "The publicity I have received," he says, "couldn't be bought for all the gold in Moscow.")
Some expression of protest against the arbitrary decisions of the Administrative Council of the City University should have come from Harvard. Since none has, the editors of the CRIMSON have taken an unusual step: they have by personal contributions paid for a full-page advertisement in the Queens College student...
The purchase of the advertisement is a response to an academic freedom debate that has raged in New York City for the past month. On Oct. 26 a speaking invitation extended to Benjamin J. Davis, Secretary of the United States Communist Party, by the Marxist Discussion Club, a student group...