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...plea for immediate unilateral disarmament was made last night by John M. Swomley, Jr., National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, in a speech to the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament...
Some argued that the Danes simply keep more accurate statistics on suicides. Said Farson: "That plea I won't accept...
Senatorial nominations remained in doubt until the conventions themselves. Williams was the only avowed candidate for the Republican nomination, but he was ignored. After considerable pressure and a personal plea from President Eisenhower (with, the Democrats charge, the promise of a Federal job in case he lost), Representative Kenneth Keating of Rochester accepted the nomination...
...final plea for student support, the report concludes, "Isolationism--pure or Ivy League style--is a thing of the past...
Judge Potter Stewart, recently appointed to the Supreme Court, agreed in his opinion that some "impairment of this First Amendment freedom" was involved in the citation. He declined, however, to honor the plea of journalistic privilege, on the grounds that it was not incorporated in the common law, and could only be assured by legislation...