Word: petitioners
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...