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...Communists are proud of Harvard Professor John K. Fairbank," he cried, and in the next breath, "Concealed Communists are the greatest menace that the United States has ever faced!" The connection was crystal clear, but this indirect method makes it impossible for accused men to sue for libel...
Second, the bill is an indirect, but effective, attack on academic freedom. Under the University's present policy, any graduate or undergraduate group many invite whomever it wishes to lecture in one of the Harvard-owned auditoriums. If one of the many organizations wish to hear a man whom the State House men consider subversive, the University could not permit the group to use any of its lecture halls. Under this bill Harvard would be liable...
Exeter started off quickly and constantly beat the visitors to the ball. At 4:15 Yardling fullback Bob Young tried to chest a ball, but it hit his arms, giving Exeter a penalty kick. Paul Marden shot the goal. Six minutes later Exeter got an indirect kick, which was good for another tally...
...himself was busy being friendly with visiting Americans, and hoping thereby to impress Stalin that any aggression against Yugoslavia might be the spark for World War III. W. Averell Harriman, on his way home from Iran, stopped over at Belgrade. He and Tito agreed, said Harriman in the purposefully indirect words of diplomacy, that a principal danger of war would come from the possible miscalculation by the Kremlin of the West's reaction to local aggression...
...Generally speaking, it seemed to me that the State Department was critical of and did not support the government we recognized. Personally, I was extremely fearful that we were going to recognize Communist China in the indirect way of permitting it to become a member of the United Nations...