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The peccadilloes of a Catholic girlhood last for four long years, and only serve to misrepresent a good-hearted girl: at graduation time Hayley decides to enter the novitiate. Roz, a worldly comedienne, retains her dignity through several assaults of whimsy that would shake a saint. In one dreary episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nuns Dimittis | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

So sweeping are South Africa's penal codes that almost everything is against the law. Under the Prisons Act, for example, it is a criminal offense to "misrepresent" conditions in South African jails-which the Verwoerd government, of course, adjudges to be always immaculate. Last week, a court in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Immaculate Confinement | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Signed by over 1300 Harvard undergraduates the petition supports American military presence in Vietnam and the President's call for unconditional negotiations. It disassociates the signers of the petition from "that vocal minority which, distrusting American intentions seeks to obstruct and misrepresent American policy."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Humphrey Talks At Tufts Today; Pickets Expected | 12/6/1965 | See Source »

"We wish to dissociate ourselves from hat vocal minority that, distrusting American intentions, seeks to obstruct and misrepresent American policy."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nov. 9 Will Give Petition to HHH | 11/29/1965 | See Source »

Another volunteer witness, Charles Callas, an unemployed New Yorker who worked for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as a junior reearcher in 1952, claimed that while Fortas served as attorney for Owen Lattimore, he had "deliberately withheld" from Senate investigators information about a Communist at the State Department. "That is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teh Supreme Court: Questions & Answers | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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