Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Object Lesson. In Ann Arbor, Mich., after giving his University of Michigan R.O.T.C. class a talk on "Safety with Firearms," Edward S. Patterson accidentally shot himself...
However, I am definitely not in sympathy with the stand which you have taken in the above-mentioned telegram. It seems to me not only over-dramatic but unwise to employ implied threats of "repercussions" and to place yourselves in the position of "censors". You have justly objected to the banning of pro-Negro films throughout the South, and it seems to me hypocritical in this case to object to a so-called anti-Negro film from being shown in the North, especially among a college-educated group. I say "so-called" because as long as I am prevented from...
...though the government freely admitted that the Kikuyu tribe remains "sullen and unpleasant." Yet few Kenyans believe that force alone will stamp out the Mau Mau. In the British House of Commons, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told M.P.s that Mau Mau terrorism is "carefully planned, centrally directed, and its object is to destroy all authority . . ." Lyttelton added that he was leaving for Kenya this week, to see for himself...
Earlier this month, he was the object of a wide sea-air search when he became ensnarled in the tail-end of a hurricane off Miami. He was later found safe...
...which, by lines drawn 18 in. from the rails, the billiard table is marked off into nine zones. From a given zone, at least one of the two object balls must be driven by the cue ball on each shot...