Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday, Councillor Walter J. Sullivan had insisted that the University pay $10 a square foot, the going rate for riverfront property. A negotiator hired by the City decided that the $7.50 rate is fair because Harvard intends to close off the streets and build the Married Students apartments over them...
Intellectuals must assume a more active role, if the United States is to counter the Communist "challenge to all our fundamental values," William A. Sullivan, Assistant Director of the FBI, stated yesterday...
...Sullivan, speaking to the Harvard Student Bar Association, expressed confidence that intellectuals would support the United States because of "disillusionment and disenchantment with Communism." When asked to be more specific about the intellectuals' role, Sullivan said they "should articulate and clarify our social vision based on freedom and our inalienable rights...
...Sullivan warned that Communists consider intellectuals "a primary target group" and seek to convert them "through front organizations concerned with such problems as civil rights, world peace, and civil liberties." "Gullibility is a real problem," he said, but if an individual is careful, "he should be able to recognize a front and come to grips with...
After his speech Sullivan was questioned about possible abridgement of civil liberties by the Federal government in its search for subversives. "I am not here to discuss the House Un-American Activities Committee," he said. "But I am opposed to extremists on the right who advocate abridgement of the Constitution. It is contrary to our traditions and not very effective." Communists must, nevertheless, "be watched," he added...