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Today's article will deal with Instances where students or student groups have charged they have been subjected to pressure because of their political opinions or activities. Two other cases which do not fall into these categories appear on page five...
...Combined Charities Drive" to the "Harvard Charities and Service Fund Drive" in order to make it more palatable to students who had objected last year to the Council getting a cut from a "charities" campaign--the Council, approved the nomination of Jerome P. Gavin '50 as chairman of the fall drive and George J. Feeney '50 as treasurer...
Gavin emphasized last night that students could allocate their money next fall, in any amount to any or all of the "student" or "national" charities, and that, unless they specified to the contrary, 20 percent of these donations would be paid into the Council administrative fund. Unallocated money will be allocated, it is expected, mainly to charities which fared badly...
...present fight started with the Key West conferences on unifying the armed forces at the beginning of last fall, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff hashed out the wartime tasks of their respective services. The major argument centered around strategic bombing--including the employment of the atomic bomb--with the Navy disputing the Air Force's claim to sole jurisdiction. After considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair...
...willing to say here, however, that if the population is stabilized at 160 million (a reasonable estimate), then it is not improbable that in the next 50 years there will he a substantial relative decline for New England and even an absolute fall. Seymour E. Harris, Professor of Economics