Word: encroach
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...Susskind tells the story, Korn began taking credit for all of Open End when, in fact, he only controlled its finances. Then he sought to encroach upon the choice of personnel and subject matter. According to the embittered moderator, Korn has "reverted to censorship at a time when broadcasting is showing new freedom and responsibility. It is particularly witless since Korn has an application pending before the F.C.C. to take over a station in Los Angeles...
...Levin, the theater is "a beleaguered city, invested not by hostile troops but by the impersonal, creeping jungle. I ask of any new production: Is it helping to push back the jungle or is it, by carelessness or treachery, letting another patch of strangling green encroach upon the walls?" Last year, even before a new mystery called Signpost to Murder had a chance to make its debut. Levin made up his mind that it would be one more case of jungle rot. "Don't tell me, let me guess," Levin wrote sarcastically in the Express, speculating in advance...
There is nothing inevitable about this flood. Certain HSA activities encroach; others do not; and it would be pointless to insist that the entire agency is a sweeping, irresistible evil. (The article below is part of an attempt to illustrate this). The trouble is simply that the University refuses to trim offending activities down to their proper size. No doubt the fact that the HSA Director wears extra hats in the student employment office and in Administration committees has something to do with Harvard's passivity, but it certainly cannot completely explain who the Administration apparently never subjects...
Howard J. Phillips '62, president of the student Council, denied yesterday that a solution passed last Monday by the council was "an ecort to encroach on the freedom of undergraduate organizations." The motion requires all amendments to institutions of undergraduate organization be submitted to the Council for approval...
...demand"; and 4) border peace and mutual confidence "are unattainable by other provisional measures." After asserting these squatter rights, Chou blandly declared that China is so big a country, and so sparsely settled in half of its area, that it would be "extremely ludicrous" to suspect that Peking would "encroach one inch upon foreign territory...