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...real barriers to increases in US-Soviet trade far surpass licensing requirements. The "strategic" classification itself is so stringent as to prohibit exportation of anything Russia seeks to import. In addition to keeping out of the USSR anything helpful to Soviet military potential, export controls also ban commodities which could in any long-run, remote way be useful to Red industrial development. Naturally Russia has little yearning for baby bibs and dentures, so there are declared non-strategic. With supply and demand stubbornly entrenched back to back, US-USSR trade had consequently dwindled to practically nothing. An unencouraging US official...
...head, and his lectures at the University of Oregon last year were described as "a fresh breeze blowing across the badlands." In a sense, the Government's loss is Harvard's gain, and the University can be glad that there are no unbending security regulations here to prohibit a series of lectures that should considerably enliven the Spring...
...four Southern states last week proclaimed a pattern of opposition to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of Mississippi, Marvin Griffin of Georgia and George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina jointly declared that the Federal Government had no power to prohibit the segregation of races in the public schools. (North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges attended as an "observer," did not sign the declaration because his state legislature was not in session.) The governors recommended to their state legislatures "that there be adopted a resolution of interposition, or protest...
...Although the University has refused to prohibit students from bringing cars to Cambridge, it has agreed to enforce parking ordinances against students," Toohy said. "We have no choice but to tighten up if the Cambridge Police decide it is necessary," he added
...plaintiffs in the case are Negro workers who have brought action to enjoin the defendant corporation from discriminating at its housing development, and to prohibit the defendant Federal agencies, the FBA ad VA, from guaranteeing purchase mortgages in the project as long as the discrimination continues...