Word: retracting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard has been negligent of John Yovicsin's rights as an individual. If University officials did indeed give him an either-or ultimatum, they should retract it and tell him what he does with his extra time is his business, not Harvard...
...Yale University, 47 students suspended for occupying the personnel office were reinstated on disciplinary probation for the rest of the year. The building seizure was the first in Yale's recent history; intended to make officials retract the firing of a black woman cafeteria employee, it worked. Said Dean John Wilkinson, head of the undergraduate discipline committee, explaining the students' reinstatement: "This time, and this time only, we decided to show mercy...
Shepard Brown'46, executive vice-president of Hunneman and Company and manager of the building, said yesterday that he has decided to retract the eviction notice, which would have taken effect next Friday...
Already there are signs that the old and new national administrations want to retract but realize that reversing policy hurts like an ear unfreezing...
...what they called "episcopal authoritarianism." Mazzi, along with three other priests and 150 Florentine laymen, sent the rebels a letter of support. Florence's archbishop, Ermenegildo Cardinal Florit, then wrote Mazzi, reproving him for "an insulting attitude to the authority of the church." Florit ordered the priest to retract his letter or resign. Mazzi refused, and 108 priests of the city petitioned the cardinal to re-examine his condemnation...