Word: requests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...request of the senior class, Yale officials broke a 75-year-old tradition to allow a student, Class Secretary William M. Thompson Jr., to give a commencement address. Thompson, an honor student in American Studies from Richmond, announced that the class had voted overwhelmingly to dedicate its commencement to opposition to the war. In addition, he said, 143 seniors had pledged to refuse induction if drafted. "The vast majority of Yale seniors want to serve and protect their country," he said, adding that "patriotism is not dead on the college campus today." But patriotism is not "blind obedience...
...Wisconsin's law a "plain judicial usurpation of state legislative power." - In 1964, WGCB, a radio station in Red Lion, Pa., broadcast a right-wing preacher's attack on Fred J. Cook, a frequent contributor to the liberal weekly magazine, The Nation. When Cook's request for a chance to reply was refused, he took his case to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC ordered the station to give Cook a turn at the mike, went on to point out that under its "fairness doctrine," broadcasters must 1) offer free time to people personally attacked...
...request was likely to go unhonored, if for no other reason than that the Italian Communists, who have great hopes for doing well in the next gen eral elections, fear the influence that the Brezhnev Doctrine would have on Italian voters. They can foresee their opponents' campaign slogan: "Put the Communists in power and the Red army will keep them there...
...Committee on Educational Policy turned down a request by the staff of Soc Sci 125 asking that the grading requirement be removed from the course. CEP spokesmen said that "some measure of comparative performance" was necessary for certification of degrees...
Lawyers for the Corporation said they would formally ask the Cambridge courts to drop criminal charges against demonstrators arrested in University Hall, but court spokesmen said that the trial judge would have power to accept or reject the request. Cambridge officials said they would urge the court not to drop the charges...