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...expressed a strong preference for the River Houses. Unwilling residents from that class put on a display worthy of the greatest of draft dodgers. One then-freshman asked a psychiatrist to certify that she would be unable to study while living at the Quad; others had alumni parents plead their cases to the housing office. All told, about 60 Quad residents have transferred so far this year and many more hope to follow them. Nor is the trend abating: in a housing poll released today more than half of the freshmen polled listed Quad Houses among the two Houses...
...terrorist act is sure to receive the widest possible attention. There is no need to cry in the wilderness when anyone so inclined can plead his case on national television. Says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer: "If someone has a latent wish to commit a criminal act, he can be galvanized by the media. He can act out any grandiose fantasies or make up for a sense of impotence...
Bailey himself appeared before the legislature to plead that the house forget his past crimes and consider instead the wishes of his constituents. Said he: "They voted me to sit in this honorable house, and I think it's no more than right for me to sit here." But the new evidence strengthened the attack on Bailey. Said one critic: "I just don't believe a convicted shoplifter should make the laws of the state." The legislature voted, 82 to 10, to bar Bailey...
...Watergate behind us," Richard Nixon used to plead. Five years after the break-in at Democratic national headquarters, the ordeal is still not over for Watergate's walking wounded, although some of them found their condition eased last week...
...former Communist spy, added that Hiss had passed State Department documents to the Communist underground in the 1930s. Hiss vigorously denied the accusations, but after two trials on perjury charges he was convicted and sent to prison. Freed after some 44 months in Lewisburg federal prison, Hiss continued to plead his innocence. To this day, he has remained for some an American Dreyfus, persecuted by the far right for the crime of being a liberal Democrat, his case a disturbing prelude to McCarthyism. To others, the facts call for a different interpretation: Hiss is a modern day Benedict Arnold...