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Ernest Hemingway's plea for Ezra Pound showed more guts than 20 safaris into the blackest jungles of Africa. The plea also demonstrated a real sense of decency...
Petersen's guilty plea last week was to the charge that he had "used" secret documents "in a manner prejudicial to the safety and interest of the U.S." (i.e., he had stored the papers in his apartment). By admitting guilt on one count of his indictment, he would avoid a trial that might, according to a top official, probe embarrassingly into details of an "emotional involvement" with a person to whom he fed information. In return, the U.S. agreed to drop two other counts, thus saving itself and The Netherlands the further embarrassment of having to prove that Petersen...
...President continued: "America joins with all believers of every faith in a prayer of thanks and a plea that, whatever lies ahead, we may be strong and courageous and wise in the doing of our own tasks in accord with the Divine Will." "And now," he said, "please permit me a personal note. Mrs. Eisenhower and I wish all of you . . . everywhere a very merry Christmas . . . God rest you; let nothing you dismay." The President flipped a switch, 2,100 lights winked on the nation's Christmas tree and a bell choir rang out O Come, All Ye Faithful...
...commuter. Although the non-resident ahs used the library with encouraging regularity, librarian Roman Rubinstein '55 said, "When I go home at night there are often books left there. I used to fight to get at Lamount before we opened here." His request is often repeated at Dudley--the plea to offer not just a negative carping against unsolved difficulties...
...Supreme Court of the State of Washington last week rejected, 5-4, the argument that fluoridation of a public water supply is unconstitutional. The court turned down Taxpayer Arthur A. Kaul's plea that he had been compelled against his will to drink fluoridated water. Said the majority opinion: "Liberty implies absence of arbitrary restraint. It does not necessarily imply immunity from reasonable regulations imposed in the interests of the community...