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Section 1001 (f)--the loyalty oath and affidavit that everyone was so upset about a year ago--is still part of the National Defense Education Act. The last effort at repeal died last summer in the House Education and Labor Committee. After three failures, supporters of repeal may understandably be discouraged. But unless Harvard and other institutions are willing to reconcile themselves either to administering the oath and affidavit or to foregoing increasingly large sums of money, they must once again take up the fight for repeal...
When the NDEA was passed in August 1958, Section 1001 (f) snuck in through an elaborate series of conference committee compromises, with no one realizing its implications. Then, educational institutions discovered that they would have to administer the oath and affidavit themselves and the campaign for repeal began. The act is up for renewal this year, and 1001 (f) will not disappear quietly. If the academic community wants to get rid of the affidavit (it is apparently willing to live with the oath), it must exert even more pressure than it did last year...
...State House Committee on Election Laws will again review the proportional representation method of election when it considers a bill to repeal the system at a meeting this morning...
Introduced by Edna Lawrence Spencer and signed "by request" by Rep. John R. Sennott, Jr., the bill would repeal the current proportional representation in Cambridge elections and substitute election by simple majority. Another provision of the bill calls for installing a city manager-council form of government in Cambridge...
Stating that he had "no personal interest in the bill," the Cambridge legislator said he was against repeal of PR. "I like the present form of government...