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...testimony before the Committee, Levinson had urged the government to set an "amnesty" program to encourage people to leave the Communist party and be accepted back in free society without being "damned...
...faculty members are William Ted Martin, head of the mathematics division, Isadore Amdur, associate professor of Chemistry, and Norman Levinson, professor of Mathematics. All three talked willingly of their past associations and mentioned other supposed Communists, including Wendell Furry, professor of Physics...
...latter two had already been named as members of a Communist cell at the University by previous witnesses. Robins, no longer here, had previously met with the Committee and co-operated with it. Levinson added he also knew Paul Sweezy, a member of the Teacher's Union here...
...most part, Levinson's testimony was similar to that given by his colleagues, Professors William T. Martin and Isador Ambur. He was unable, however, to identify Dirk J. Struik, suspended professor of mathematics at M.I.T., as a Communist Party member. "I am uncertain about Struik," he said. "Just being a member of the group didn't necessarily mean you were a member of the party...
...Levinson joined the Communist Party because of the depression and unemployment. He quit when the Communists tried to set up a party line on music and Russia took an official stand in a dispute over genetics--"no scientists can subscribe to government science," he stated...