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...Viola said that he had spoken to all the lawyers involved, who asked that their client he allowed to change their please from "not guilty" to "nolo": In other words to let them throw themselves at the mercy of the court. Viola begged the court to accept this plea...
Attorney's for the 28 students scheduled to appear in court this morning jointly issued a plea yesterday requesting that students who are neither witnesses not defendants should not come to the courtroom...
...President's plea for funds also emphasized the fact that the College is at present giving scholarships to a significantly smaller proportion of students than either Yale or Princeton, and that it is "losing scores of promising boys because of our inability to help...
...Import Bank Loans, Point Four aid and Mutual Security Assistance. But now Congress, which had voted as much aid to tiny Israel in 1952 as to all the other Mid-East states combined, seemed disinclined to continue the pace. This week, as the U.S. Government, responding to an emergency plea from Tel Aviv, sped $11 million in economic aid to Israel, the last of the refugee relief funds voted Israel were exhausted...
...Times's readers were not alone in worrying about the schools, or in resenting the religious vacuum the schools had created. In a solemn plea, the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Wales noted the "urgent need," asked that all denominations join in a common drive to restore religion to education. Indeed, added Winston Churchill on the floor of the House of Commons, "religion has been the rock in the life and character of the British people . . . This fundamental element must never be taken from our schools...