Word: fitchburg
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Invective and Results. At State College in Fitchburg, Mass., the school's president canceled an entire issue of the student paper Cycle to prevent the publication of an obscenity-filled article by Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver. The Harvard Crimson, though relatively restrained in its news reporting, has a majority faction of New Leftists who often ram through radical editorials and feature stories. In one recent story, Crimson staffer Richard E. Hyland defended terrorism and wrote: "The only reason I wouldn't blow up the Center for International Affairs is that I might get caught...
...plan also calls for a massive Veteran's Day rally and teach-in on Nov. 11 at Fitchburg State College, near Ft. Devens, to include G. I. and veteran participation. Torney said this is an important peace tactic because "the soldiers have the dynamism to end the war." He said many servicemen would support this demonstration...
...time, Ben Sack was primarily involved with a copper and smelting plant. In 1949, he was again offered the chance to invest in a movie house. Again he accepted. This time it looked even rougher. The theatre, which had to be refurbished and reopened, was located in Fitchburg, a factory town of 43,000. It had only one competitor, an already successful operation right next door. Within a year and three months, Sack's group bought out the neighboring opposition. It had been owned by Joseph P. Kennedy...
...Before this 1968 legislative year is over, there will be a new statute in reference to the commitment procedures," Senator Joseph D. Ward (D-Fitchburg), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told a group from the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health yesterday...
Thus far the City's most intelligent reply has been to cite the 45-year-old case of Dooling vs. City Council of Fitchburg. The case dealt directly with the possible uses of initiative petitions. The Supreme Julicial Court ruled "It cannot have been the purpose of the General Court to require or to permit the referendum or the initiative... touching subjects wholly outside the field of authorized action by the City Council. Such a futile intention cannot be imputed to the General Court...