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First, many Northern lobbyists had proven rather imaginative in describing the Party to delegates, at times hinting that the FDP group in Atlantic City would be 50% white. Understandably, the Party wished to squelch such rumors at their source. Second, the Goldwater nomination had impressed FDP leaders with the importance of a Democratic victory in November, and there was acute worry that overzealous lobbying might turn the "Mississippi question" into a wedge between quarelling party factions in key states like New York and California...
...Lawrence College, where Nathan M. Pusey served as president before coming to Harvard, the board of trustees voted unanimously last month to squelch a student proposal for "invitational open houses" in dormitories...
...drinkers were few; the majority of the young and not so young behaved as well as they danced ineptly. When one exuberant youth started to steal a lantern as the party dissolved into the rainy dawn, his girl deftly doused him with the teenagers' squelch supreme: "How immature...
...duty," Tshombe told newsmen, and now he would be leaving for Northern Rhodesia to take care of a troublesome eye ailment. How long would he be gone? "The doctors will decide that," said Tshombe, but Elisabethville hummed with rumors that he was going for good. Moise did nothing to squelch the gossip, for 48 hours after he left his capital he was on a plane bound for Paris...
While up to now the Russian economy was organized horizontally by territories, it will henceforth be organized vertically by functions. Thus the Kremlin intends to squelch remaining nationalistic rivalries within Russia. For example, a new Central Asiatic Bureau will be set up in Moscow to plan economic development in four primitive regions, in one more attempt to take away the vestiges of autonomy they still enjoy...