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...print. The story was not libelous or sloppily written, and was not trivial. By any standard, it was well worth running in The Times. But the story concerned the Central Intelligence Agency, and when CIA director William Colby got wind of it, he implored the paper to supress the news for a while. The managing editor agreed...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: It's All in the Family | 3/28/1975 | See Source »

...diamondmen, who had been over the coals in Philadelphia the day before and kept alive their Eastern League hopes with a pair of wins, managed to supress their jubilation at winning the Bike Cup once again, saving all their energy and the celebration for yesterday's playoff victory...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Takes EIBL, GBL Championships | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...Noam Chomsky, Ward professor of linguistics at MIT and a noted critic of American involvement in S.E. Asia, yesterday called the high officials who attempted to supress the publication of the Pentagon Papers "wolves who have imposed secrecy to enslave American citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chomsky Hits U.S. Secrecy, Suppression | 11/11/1971 | See Source »

...Urban Violence." The course's instructor--Siegfried M. Breuning, visiting lecturer in Transportation, cancelled the course on Feb. 7 after 85 black students appeared at the first meeting to protest the course's alleged "racist" plans to "devise programs to further contain and supress" urban blacks by developing a "riot-control technology...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Pusey Supports Letter by Faculty | 2/19/1969 | See Source »

...administration did its best to supress these outbursts. Faculty resolutions would be passed to examine the problem. students would be expelled. But nothing seemed to work untill the Great Rebellion of 1834. It was during May and June of this year that the Rebellion Tree had its greatest glory. President Josiah Quincy severely punished many students for this disturbance--he expelled all but three from the Sophomore Class. This fact alone may explain the subsequent lack of any serious outburst against the administration. More probably, however, students realized they could never hope to surpass the epic struggle of those...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: What Happened to the Rebellion Tree? | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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