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...Started. The most obvious-and perhaps the most, important-difference between Nixon's fund and other Congressmen's sources of outside income is that Nixon raised money by an unconventional method, whereas the outside incomes of other congressmen, though not necessarily more proper, have the sanction of time. A few decades ago, the Nixon fund would have been unlikely, because there would have been no reason for it. Before the decline of state political machines, expenses such as Nixon's (for speeches, mailing propaganda, etc.) were met out of party organization funds. But today in many states...
Both colleges sanction freshman disturbances in one way or another. Worried lest the whole sophomore class might not participate in hazing of Beanie-wearing freshmen, the Bruin '55 class committee called a meeting last Thursday "to discuss the hazing of freshmen by the entire sophomore class...
...history has so much power been won with so little effort. Starting out to purge Egypt's army, Naguib became Egypt's ruler; vowing a distaste for politics, he has become through default his country's leading politician. Last week the reluctant ruler had the enthusiastic sanction of the people and the press, the anxious respect of the politicians, and the hopeful if sluggish attention of the Western powers...
Association continue to sanction them as members of the organization they are trying to sabotage? These subversive agents for socialized medicine surely should get more than a slap on the wrist...
...Ciudadano (The Citizen) is published occasionally, without official sanction, by Argentina's opposition Radical Party. Last week El Ciudadano hit Buenos Aires newsstands with a story that sold 40,000 copies to goggle-eyed citizens before police confiscated the rest of the edition. Its gist: Perón has formed a private militia from the ranks of his General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), and is preparing to arm it to the teeth...