Word: mented
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Theoretically, at least, the agency to deal with these shortcomings already exists: the Federal Communications Commission. Its control of the broadcast industry would seem to be an infringe ment of the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press, but it is excused on the grounds that there are so few available broadcast channels and they are therefore public property and must be used in the public interest. Stations are licensed and bound by written rules covering everything from transmission wattage to obscenity. Political candidates are guaranteed equal time with rival candidates, and a citizen may rebut a "personal attack...
...ment to Lindsay's come-from-behind shot at re-election. In other words, the Lindsay victory could be a Pyrrhic victory, squeezing Manhattan, the poor, the rich, the social scientists and the beautiful people to the bone...
Rosovsky was chairman of the Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies, whose widely-publicized report last January recommended the establish-ment of an undergraduate concentration in Afro-American Studies, an increase in the number of fellowships available to black graduate students, and the creation of a black students social center. The Faculty adopted his committee's report in February, and Rosovsky was named to oversee the development of the new department...
...Carolina, whose approval is by no means certain (see THE NATION). For another, Burger shows no sign of wanting to lead the court in a headlong retreat from the past 16 years. "We are unlikely to see a sudden return to some strange, anti-defendant, anti-Negro, anti-reapportion-ment court," says Professor Arthur Sutherland of Harvard Law School. "Time is running the other...
...ment of the Moratorium is for an immediate end to the war." But John D. Hanify '71. president of the HUC, said that his letter to Ford suggested suspending classes to "express conscientious concern." about the war. The tone of the HUC letter was moderate. Hanify said in order to attract the widest support possible among Faculty members...