Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The House of Representative has given the final death-blow to the disclaimer affidavit provision of the National Defense Education Act.
Suddenly and quietly, the giant armadillo that threw college administrators into confused indignance for some three years is dead--or at least half dead. The college faculties, among them Harvard's, had denounced the disclaimer affidavit provision in the government's student loan program as an "obnoxious" clause singling out...
It is undeniable that the Senate's continued inclusion of a clause specifying criminal prosecution in case a student belongs to a subversive organization still leaves a slightly bad smell hanging about the loan program. But the colleges and the Congress have held a position of impossible intransigeance toward each...
The Senate action would substitute for the affadavit a criminal provision fixing a $10,000 maximum fine and up to five years imprisonment for any person who was a member of a subversive organization and received such a loan.
The first question dealt with the proposed revision of Senate Rule 22 regarding limitation of debate. Hughes, speaking first, called for a rule which would impose cloture by a simple majority, with "reasonable provision for full debate, say 100 hours."