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...contrast, the housing and expansion plank, as approved Monday at Soldiers' Field, is simply too vague to constitute an undue constraint as the Faculty finally proceeds to overturn Harvard's long-established policy of non-concern in such matters. The University restructuring plank is divided into two levels of objectives, but it again comes down to a single, wholly defensible proposition (one far more important than the number of students or Faculty on a reconstituted Corporation), mainly that ultimate authority over this University not be vested in a secretive and unrepresentative organization. The final substantive demand, that relating to Afro...
...hired Memphis Attorney Richard J. Ryan to seek to overturn the 99-year sentence Ray accepted last month in return for a guilty plea. Judge W. Preston Battle, 60, the tough jurist who sentenced Ray, was found dead of a heart attack last week. Judge Arthur Faquin, appointed to take charge of Ray's case, must now rule whether a letter found among Battle's files constitutes a valid petition by Ray for a new trial...
...Liberty! And for all those tortured by the colonels, those thousands locked up in concentration camps! Re-si-sten-za!") that crowds stoned the Greek consulate and battled police. Next she turned up in Turin, where extreme left-wingers used the occasion to pelt police with paving stones, overturn cars and generally raise a ruckus. In Athens the government shrugged off her campaign. "She is just a has-been...
Counterattack. Cigarette executives are also intensifying their own anti-anti-smoking war. Just last month the Tobacco Institute petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the 1967 FCC ruling that broadcasters must give free time to commercials warning of the dangers of cigarettes. The Tobacco Institute has also opened a six-week nationwide campaign of newspaper ads reiterating the industry's defense that "there is no demonstrated causal relationship between smoking and any disease"-a claim that a spokesman for the Government's National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health describes as "typical hokum...
...Believe me, we wouldn't feel upset in the slightest if the Faculty would overturn this," Peterson said. The committee's preliminary study indicated that, of the 13 scholarship students on Paine pro, only five or six would have their scholarships reduced by the full $500, with three or four receiving no reduction at all, and the remainder a cut of less than $500, he said...