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...said the proposal was actually a plea for "honest labeling" of student groups. It would require that any organization which has discriminatory membership requirements in its constitutions must state that its purpose is to conduct activities which require such discrimination...
...overwhelming. Thomas had padded his congressional payroll for eight years with fictitious employees and pocketed most of their salaries for himself. On the third day of his trial for fraud, as some of Congressman Thomas' non-working "employees" prepared to testify against him, he surrendered. He withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a no-contest plea to four charges of conspiracy and fraud. Liable to as much as 32 years in prison and fines totalling $40,000, Parnell Thomas hoped for mercy-a quality he had never shown in his ruthless badgering of witnesses in the days...
Phillips Brooks House's Travel Introduction Bureau sent out an urgent plea for more cars yesterday when the travel secretary reported that she has received 75 requests for rides but only 15 places offered...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
...plea failed. Last week, confined to a wheelchair by a heart attack, 53-year-old Herbert Burgman became the twelfth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason during World...