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...Weidner, "our bookshelves would be either empty or contain books written only by relatives of the subject." He added: "Miss Frick might as well try to enjoin publication and distribution of the Holy Bible because, being a descendant of Eve, she does not believe that Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden...
...sudden buying rush that threatened to wipe out its dwindling stockpile, the Treasury barely had time to put its plans into action. Sales of its silver for export were abruptly halted; domestic sales were limited to "legitimate industrial users," and the export or melting of silver coins was forbidden.* "We knew we'd get out of the silver business sooner or later," explains Assistant Treasury Secretary Robert Wallace, "but we didn't know it would be so soon...
Barring Transients. To the argument that "abortion has always been forbidden by the church," Lamm replied that until the reign of Pope Sixtus V (1585-90), termination of pregnancy was permissible within 40 days of conception for a male fetus and 80 days for a female.* Sixtus banned all abortions, but was reversed in the year after his death by Gregory XIV, who declared abortion illegal only after the fetus quickens. Not until 1869, said Lamm, did Pius IX revert the church to the position of Sixtus V. Lamm urged Catholics to follow the lead of Boston's Richard...
...many posters in the Spring Mobilization peace march headquarters read, "The Original Great Springout--A Megalopolitan Peacepipe Pow-Wow--Saturday, April 15, 1967--Many Smokes and Spring Seasonings--Lites, Kites, Pipes, Rites, Sights, Beads, Reeds, Bells, Shells, Smells, Cells, Kids. Aimals. Flowers, Feathers, Corn, Bananas, Peppers, Seeds, Nuts, Forbidden Fruits, Instruments...
...indeed make more use of direct and open grants to the University now that President Johnson has forbidden the Agency to work through the conduits. But if the formula for government aid to academic projects is now to be open, it is unlikely that the CIA, by its secretive nature, would make such grants. If it should offer Harvard a grant for some specified work, Ford's proposal makes good sense. It would allow the University to determine at that time whether the terms of the CIA's offer did not undermine the credibility of Harvard as a haven...