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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, yesterday opposed "selling any land whatsoever to Harvard" or to any other untaxable private interest." Toomey declared that he would support any legislative measure forcing the MTA to sell its property by competitive bidding after notifying officials of the town involved...
Asked Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright: suppose the U.S. sent an armed convoy through, the Communists stalled it by blowing up a bridge? Answer: the U.S. would repair the bridge. Asked Fulbright: "What would we do if they used armed force at that point to prevent us from repairing the bridge?" Said the President: "That is the $64,000 question...
Kennedy got his sharpest jolt fortnight ago when Brooklyn police solved the rape-murder of a 60-year-old grandmother. Grimly they announced that one of her two attackers was Patrolman Francis J. Rogers, 26, three years a policeman, whose father and brother are also on the force...
...Howard J. Phillips '62, who is chairman of the Student Council Dining Hall committee, talked yesterday with Carle T. Tucker, Director of the College Dining Halls. He reported that "Tucker stressed the operational advantages of the proposed change but insisted that he had merely made the proposal as a suggestion, and that he was in no position to decide on the matter...
Although not agreeing with the President's handling of the Berlin trouble, Herbert J. Spiro '50, assistant professor of Government, said "I wouldn't panic over the Krushchev ultimatum, if you can call it that." He asserted that the Soviet Premier's suggestion to let the United Nations play a role in the East-West conflict was worth consideration by the United States. According to Spiro, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's trip to Moscow helped relations...