Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe News, in an editorial in this morning's edition, added its voice to the recent protest registered against the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James lecturer...
...carry more weight with the Tory Party and with Macmillan personally than the sibilant, stern Lord Salisbury. Besides being relatives by marriage, Macmillan and Salisbury have been political allies ever since 1938 when Salisbury, along with Anthony Eden, resigned from Neville Chamberlain's government in protest at British appeasement of Mussolini. When Suez and ill-health drove Eden from No. 10 Downing Street last winter, it was Salisbury, together with Sir Winston Churchill, who persuaded the Queen to name Macmillan Prime Minister instead of "Rab" Butler (who had once supported Chamberlain's appeasement...
...York Herald Tribune's reporter was taking a frankly subjective view of the news. When the judges gave second place in last week's "Little Sebring" sports-car race to a Porsche Carrera, she banged out a bristling protest. "The Carrera, I do believe," typed Denise McCluggage, "was third instead of second." Then she added her reason for second-judging the judges...
...Security Pictures; United Artists). "They can't do that!" spluttered Colonel Blimp as the Japanese raced through the supposedly impassable jungles of Malaya in 1941. "It's against the rules of war!" The U.S. Army, which recently made a similar protest to the makers of this movie, now seems to have been guilty of a similar Blimpertinence. The script was condemned, and all Army assistance denied to its producers, because several scenes contained "incidents against regulations''-notably incidents in which a renegade sergeant disputes (though he does not disobey) the authority of a lieutenant...
Student and alumni groups opposed to the appointment of the physicist plan no public protest or demonstration. Members of the Harvard Athenaeum said they would oppose and try to discourage such action, but will sponsor a debate on the subject next week...