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Trying to quell growing resentment against the firing of two professors who refused to answer accusations posed by the McCarran Committee, Rutgers University recently distributed copies of the Chafee-Sutherland dictum on the legal duty of citizens to testify before judicial or legislative bodies, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...treated as an equal. "The special responsibility which the U.S. has accepted ... in the struggle against Russian Communist imperialism," he said last year of Korea, "does not mean an automatic response 'ready, aye, ready' to everything Washington proposes." Two months ago use of Canadian soldiers to help quell rioting prisoners at Koje brought an indignant Pearson outburst...
Chief Randall was summoned last May to the Medical School in Boston after more than 300 students began shouting and pelting people with waterbags. With a sergeant and three officers who were rushed to the scene from Cambridge, Randall managed to quell the disturbance, but in the process, he was knocked down by some students...
Solemnly chewing betel nut, he walked to Magsaysay, handed over his two pistols and a symbolic stack of 24 firearms, including BARs, carbines and old Japanese guns. In smooth tau-sog, Kamlon pledged the help of his band of 300 in Magsaysay's new campaign to quell the Moros, who are second only to the Communist Huks in defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs...
...minor water-fight began in the Yard and spread to the Square despite the efforts of University police to quell it. Over 200 undergraduates soon joined in on the fun before the familiar sirens were heard screaming down Mass. Avenue...