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Trying to quell growing resentment against the firing of two professors who refused to answer accusations posed by the McCarran Committee, Rutgers University recently distributed copies of the Chafee-Sutherland dictum on the legal duty of citizens to testify before judicial or legislative bodies, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...Eight days in jail never hurt anybody," said Juan Perón last year in one of his frequent pep talks to Buenos Aires police. Under this stern dictum, made legal by the "state of internal war" decreed after the 1951 army revolt, thousands of Argentines were in & out of jail during the past year. Usually they were arrested, jailed and released without any formal charge. And, almost without exception, the real reason was that they were known or believed to oppose the regime...
...Boston NAACP, which had banned the film in the past, did not protest the showing on orders from president Lionel Lindsay. Afterwards, however, the group's executive board reversed Lindsay's dictum and protested the exhibition to President Conant. It was the film's first public exhibition in the Boston area since 1916, when it caused bloody riots at midtown theatres...
When the Council passed the ratio proposal, which, according to Sapers, "means in realistic terms that we are going to have to cut one international charity," the Committee Chairman said his group can either accept the Council's dictum or disband, and indicated the latter course as probable. Actually, the Combined Charities Committee, a group appointed by the Council, can repect Council proposals...
Between shows in the capital, Musi-comedienne Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing disclosed that her giddy role had not kept her from observing a phenomenon across the local footlights. Her dictum: "Washington audiences come to the theater as researchers. They watch me like hawks and . . . treat me with the deference they would accord to a symphony, but it's impersonal . . . If Americans are ready to accept big people with close-cropped hair and large eyes like me, Washington wants to know about it. I have a feeling I'm being examined and absorbed and filed away, because...