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Finally, requests for information about a student's beliefs and associations inevitably imply the spectre of reprisals. To the extent that they do, they put at hazard the intellectual freedom of the college and the university. This dampening of free in-quiry and expression may affect faculty members and administrative officers as well as students. It is therefore in the interests of the entire academic community to protect vigilantly its traditions of free debate and investigation by safeguarding students and their records from pressures that may curtail their liberties. America cannot afford a recurrence of the incursions made on intellectual...
Only slightly unsettled by the plot, Roy Wilkins remarked: "All of us in this movement are accustomed to threats. We recognize that this is an occupational hazard. This is the first time an alleged threat has been reported from a Negro group...
...bottles that protect the icy liquid from the warmth of the surrounding water and at the same time keep the diver's back and shoulders from freezing. From the tanks, the liquid air is piped through warming coils that heat it until it expands into breathable gas. Only hazard: since liquid air allows the diver to stay under far longer, he must surface slowly, in stages, to avoid the bends...
...effects have been far-reaching. Crops were hit hard, from the fragile, cheesecloth-shaded tobacco leaves in the Northeast to the whole cornucopia of California fruits, particularly pears, apples, tomatoes and citrus. In Los Angeles, the rains brought unusually lush vegetation to the hills, posing a serious fire hazard for late summer, when the greenery bakes tinder...
...Manhattan. In the past two years alone, the metropolis has undergone ordeal by blackout, smog, race riot, drought, blizzard, transit strike and about every other affliction that can visit a city. Last week 250,-000 long-suffering Manhattanites were subjected to a new kind of hazard: trial by garbage and stairway. As usual, they responded with inventiveness, insouciance...