Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State must take full responsibility for the nature and scope of any exceptions to it. The newsmen objected to Dulles' proposed limitation on the size of the group because it ignored "technological" changes since the war, i.e., the growth of TV reporting. Also, argued the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram's William Dwight, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, "economic factors" provide a built-in limitation on the number of correspondents in China. Probable outcome: six-month visas for 20 to 35 newsmen...
While Ole Miss seethed with unrest last week, Texas Technological College (enrollment: 8,000) suddenly erupted. On the campus at Lubbock, 300 members of the faculty gathered in angry mass meeting to denounce the board of directors. Reason: the board, meeting in closed session, without giving reasons and without a hearing, had fired two respected members of the faculty. The board's motives for the dismissals were all too obvious. Both Professor of Government Byron Abernethy and Assistant Professor of Psychology Herbert GreeHberg had publicly expressed opinions that the board members-political appointees of former Governor Allan Shivers...
...Gloucester, Mass, threw the beard, beret and bikini set of latter-day painters into a foot-stamping tizzy with a decision that no nudes will be shown in this week's Sixth Annual Arts Festival. Artists answered the challenge with a threat to stage an all-nude show at nearby Rock-port's Bearskin Neck, began peppering the local newspaper with impassioned protests ("As an artist I love what God created, and I never want to see pants on plants"). At week's end hard-pressed Festival Chairman Ken Gore announced that the ban was only against...