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...Visiting Committee was considerably upset. Fourteen members retained another lawyer, J. W. Farley, and requested delay in putting the Plan into effect until their counsel could report. He reached an opposite result. Meanwhile, Grenville Clark, who had just resigned from the Corporation, called in still a third, Robert G. Dodge. His report agreed with Farley's Both reports reached the President and Fellows, and they responded by asking Ropes, Gray, Best, Collidge, and Rugg for a fourth, report. Oscar M. Shaw for that firm penned a vigorous endorsement, though not wholly without reservation as to details...
...University's 10,000 students are scattered among no less than fourteen schools and colleges. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest single division, with about 2600 students, but it does not have a majority even of the undergraduates...
...summer of 1953, fourteen colleges and universities throughout the country refused to sign contracts to participate in the preparation of the corresondence courses when the Department insisted upon the insertion of a clause giving itself power to reject faculty members for security reasons...
During the 1953 controversy, the government at first claimed the right to disqualify faculty personnel from participation in the courses for any cause whatsoever. Under the pressure of college protests, the Defense Department modified its stand to the extent of making security grounds the sole reason for dismissal. But fourteen of the institutions, mostly state universities, still refused to agree to the contracts, fearing government encroachment on academic freedom. The American Civil Liberties Union registered a particularly strong protest against the government's action, expressing concern "lest government control extend so far as to impose strict conformity on our national...
Divorced. By Gloria de Haven, 28, Hollywood musicomedy singer (Down Among the Sheltering Palms): Manhattan Real Estate Broker Martin S. Kimmel, 38, her second husband (first: Cinemactor John Payne); after fourteen months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...