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Lineage. In Chicago, charged with draft-dodging, James Pharr, 25, failed to make his point and drew a five-year sentence after telling the court that he was exempt from service because he was related to the Neanderthal man, was therefore an alien "Asiatic...
...Corporation decided on January 12, 1953, officially to exempt the Arboretum form this plan. The decision was necessitated by much legal controversy as to whether moving parts of the Arnold Arboretum's library and herbarium from, Jamaica Plain to the proposed building was a "violation of trust funds...
Company lands now planted in bananas, African oil palms and other crops, as well as dairy pastures, planted mahogany forests and building sites, are exempt from expropriation. Thus the drastic seizure will not immediately end United Fruit's Guatemala operation. But eventually, as the inevitable "Panama disease" (a fungus that attacks the roots) sickens the banana lands, the company, deprived of its reserve tracts, will have to cut production. And United Fruit is on notice that further investment in Guatemala would be unwelcome-and unwise...
...despite the distorted nature of this latest Inquisition, it has pointed up dramatically the fact that American propaganda efforts are still greatly inadequate for the job they must do. Looking behind soiled departmental linen, hung out by disgruntled employees, it is clear that U. S. psychological warfare must be exempt from both economic and ideological orthodoxy if it is to challenge the Soviets in the arena of the mind...
...could do that much easier and better by importing companies like the Boston Film Society, it has nothing to do with providing financial crutches for political groups or even creative groups, for pure money raising is irrelevant to the group's main purpose and threatens the University's tax-exempt status as well...