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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweden, which generally plays it lightly, last week was in an uproar about sex. The cause was a petition of protest to King Gustav VI Adolf signed by 140 eminent Swedish physicians, including the King's own doctor. Their plea to the monarch and to the government: take swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: Taking Sex Seriously | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

The HCUA's interest was aroused by a Winthrop House petition, signed by roughly half of the membership of the House, asking for weekly steak. A joint Winthrop-HCUA contingent, led by Steven K. Katona '66, visited C. Graham Hurlbut, Jr., director of the dining hall department, in early February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Halls Dept. Examines Plans To Serve Steak at College's Meals | 3/5/1964 | See Source »

Worst May Be Best. God may not always appear to take notice; "every war, every famine or plague, almost every deathbed, is the monument to a petition that was not granted." This, Lewis suggests, is inevitable: "In our ignorance we ask what is not good for us or for others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prayer: Better Without Words | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

The handout related how Mrs. Oswald had sent a wire to President Johnson asking for legal representation for her son at the investigation proceedings. "You know what I got back?" she asked the reporter. "You know? I got back a note from the White House saying that in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Between Two Fires | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke this week began legal proceedings to ban John Cleland's eighteenth-century novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) in the state. A petition presented before Judge Eugene A. Hudson of Suffolk County Superior Court asks that he declare the book "obscene...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Brooke Moves to Ban "Fanny Hill" | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

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