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Attorney for Samuel L. Popkin, lecturer in Government, filed a petition with the Supreme Court yesterday asking it to review his case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Popkin Asks for High Court Ruling | 1/11/1973 | See Source »

...Popkin was jailed for a week last November for contempt after refusing to answer what he termed "irrelevant" questions before a U.S. grant jury in Boston investigating the Pentagon papers. Popkin said that the questions asked for "confidential sources," and based his defense on the first' amendment, which protects freedom of the press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Popkin Asks for High Court Ruling | 1/11/1973 | See Source »

...dear Perla Hewes. Drink up, Levines, there's truth in wine. Hey, Master Peretz, you're doing fine. McGovern. Shriver, drown your woes. We all know that's the way it goes. Dick Nix n Spiro, save your glee For the office party at I.T.T. Cheers to Popkin. Schorseh and Blustein. Applause for BSO and Bernstein. (But maybe that one doesn't rhyme If steen now has the sound of stine) But cheers, no less, you're quite fantastic. For you, Norton Poet, a hudibrastic. (Now, Paula Cronin, your Gazette, Has hired a doggerel-laureate But stick to news, next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greetings to Our Friends | 12/20/1972 | See Source »

...other point should be mentioned. Popkin has argued that scholars must be able to keep their sources of information secret. But it is one of the prime requisites of scholarship that one's sources be public and subject to verification by others. In this society, secrecy is often a good and-or necessary thing, but it is officially anathema to scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVIL LIBERTIES OR ELITISM? | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

Finally I cannot help but comment on the way in which Popkin's colleagues and the Harvard University administration rushed to his defense. One wonders where these great defenders of civil liberties have been on so many other occasions. But, then, perhaps they are well aware that the real issue here is one of privilege for themselves and not one of civil liberties for the people. Arthur MacEwen Assistant Prof. of Economics

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVIL LIBERTIES OR ELITISM? | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

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