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...Eden's official residences] be able to neutralize the cold, calculating and implacable exploitation of human rights on which the whole Soviet technique for world domination is based? ... It would be just as practicable to invite two professional ladies from Paris to attend Roedean [England's most select girls' school] in the hope that they would marry archdeacons and live in respectability for the rest of their lives...
Johnson's idea was to expand previous plans and set up an eight-man special select committee (four Democrats, four Republicans) and he quickly convinced the Democratic Policy Committee. Almost as quickly he named his team: Tennessee's Albert Gore (probable chairman), Massachusetts' John Kennedy, Arkansas' John McClellan, New Mexico's Clinton Anderson. Minority Leader Bill Knowland readily agreed to the Johnson plan. For the Republicans Knowland named New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Minnesota's Ed Thye, Connecticut's William Purtell and Arizona's Barry Goldwater. The Senate approved the select...
Some students industriously select the University's most esoteric-sounding courses to impress their friends and the folks back home. The more realistic usually seek a gut for a fourth course. The green book is full of courses; so, to please both these elements, the CRIMSON takes another plunge into it, this time to look for interesting Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday courses without burdensome prerequisites...
October 10, 1955: Kamin's trial opens with futile attempt to select a jury. Applause for McCarthy, chief government witness, causes a mistrial. Kamin and government agree to waiver of jury trial...
...Western world? The International Press Institute, financed by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, last week reported that out of 40 so-called free countries surveyed, only four-Britain, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium-could boast a press fully free of government restrictions. The I.P.I, surveyors disqualified the U.S. from this select group. Reason: censorship barriers imposed by federal agencies in overclassifying information...