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...Project on Corporate Responsibility has called on five corporations--Union Oil, Gulf, Warner-Lambert, Eastman Kodak and International Telephone and Telegraph--to amend their bylaws to prohibit contributions to political campaigns...
Harrington is concerned about gun control and he has recently filed a bill in the House to prohibit and confiscate all handguns, with exceptions for law enforcement officials and a few other groups. He sees chances for approval in the judiciary committee as good, but is less optimistic about the possibilities in Congress unless it receives executive support...
...became suspicious that Ruby and William Walden, who worked in a department store in Quantico, Va., were selling firearms to minors illegally. He had three young Marines assigned to an undercover investigation that resulted in the Waldens' conviction. The appeals court concluded that Navy regulations and other laws prohibit use of the armed services to enforce civilian laws. "But," said the court, "because this case presents the first [such] instance of which we are aware ... we decline to reverse the judgments." The court made clear that future abuses might prompt it to exclude the evidence gathered...
Landers said that a third possible alternative might be to prohibit upperclassmen from Lowell House, Quincy House and Adams House, the three Harvard Houses closest to the Union, from eating at the Union...
Fire in the Lakefailed to dent the barriers in my mind that prohibit objective thinking about the war. The book was too mystical and detached to have anything to do with the country I remember...