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...April occupation of University Hall by over 250 students and the April 10 police bust in Harvard Yard, the Freund Committee-appointed by Pusey to "investigate possible misconduct of members of the University teaching staff" during and after the occupation-was criticized by many as the first such probe since the McCarthy...
Mitchell's pledge to negotiate will not end the problem of subpoenas on the press. For one thing, negotiation does not ensure agreement. For another, the Justice Department has not been alone in efforts to probe newsmen's files. State attorneys and defense lawyers have also been caught up in the trend and there is no assurance that they will follow Mitchell out of it. Perhaps it will take a court challenge to establish where freedom of the press ends and aid to attorneys begins. But Mitchell, at least, seems conciliatory at present...
...Military Assistance Command's Office of Information (MACOI) in South Viet Nam. Its Saigon accreditation office issued press cards last month to four U.S. military investigators. What they were supposed to investigate is unclear, though genuine correspondents in Saigon suspect they intended to use their press cover to probe sources of news leaks, the operation of the black market and the scope of antiwar movements. Despite attempts by the agents to melt invisibly into the Saigon press corps, their cover was quickly blown. MACOI tried to brush off the incident by blaming it on a major who had approved...
Scientists are very pleased with their find. "It's as if we'd gotten back a spacecraft from a deep space probe," said James Cornell of the Smithsonian Observatory. He added, "This is a very valuable rock...
...verbose new talkie (A Countess from Hong Kong) panned in the '60s. Though such indisputable masterworks as The Gold Rush and Modern Times have been sporadically revived, the tramp is now customarily seen in scraps and splices in anthology films. They seldom probe an aspect of the clown that was once the most universally acknowledged: his genius...