Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, deal principally with the issue of RGA's power on campus and its role in political and academic controversies outside of Radcliffe. Lois R. Goodman '66 believes that "RGA Needs Action" both the furthering political and academic freedoms "wherever they are attacked" and in airing student complaints and dissent with the administration...
...regulations for grading and packing garlic (the bulbs must be free of dirt, manure or nongarlic smell) and decided to eliminate gradually all tariffs and import price controls on it. The plan, which was considered with all the solemnity suited to the occasion, was passed without a sniff of dissent...
...Johnson's $1.1 billion bill for aid to Appalachia. The Senate passed much the same bill last year, by a 45-to-13 vote, but time ran out before the House got around to it. This year both branches are expected to whoop it through without much dissent...
Reviewing the legal precedents for a decision in either direction, Macaulay decided Fanny Hill "goes far beyond and substantially beyond customary limits of candor and makes persistent appeals to shameful and morbid interests in prolonged, detailed and florid descriptions of sexual activities;" he also asserted his agreement with the dissent in the 4-3 New York Court of Appeals decision that the book is protected by the First Amendment...
...biting dissent, Justice John M. Harlan called the majority's reasoning "revolutionary" in its voiding of state convictions. Justice Hugo Black was even more scathing. "It certainly relieves us of work to abate these so-called sit-in cases," he commented in court. But, he contended in his written dissent: "I do not find one paragraph, one sentence, one clause, or one word in the 1964 Act on which the most strained efforts of the most fertile imagination could support such a conclusion. The idea that Congress has power to accomplish such a result has no precedent...