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...affirmative vote, this afternoon would signify tacit Council consent to any other existing and future political organizations which guarantee no outside affiliations. Such groups as the Young Republican Club and the Committee for Wallace already have strong Radcliffe backing and grant of charters would permit these embryo clubs to use Radcliffe property for Harvard Radcliffe rallies...
Many Congressmen were out politicking. Before they left Washington, they had reached a tacit gentleman's agreement that not much serious work would be done in Congress while they were gone. The little that did get done was right in line with the election-year emphasis on economy and tax cuts...
...witness in these times a climax of nationalism," Noel was quoted as writing. "Citizenship in a nation being tacit acceptance and approval of this situation, or else ignorance of these facts, has become intolerable and incompatible with my personal conventions," he concluded...
...Bingham was the target of half-humorous, half-serious accusatory darts. The fact is that it was the system, and not the enforcement, which drew the darts; and to be justified, those complaints should have been made a month or more ago. Once a system has earned tacit approval by lack of opposition, the fairest thing is to carry it out as announced...
...discarded their idea of cross-Charles lots as a poor financial gamble when the plan received little response from car owners. Of the 110 men reporting no storage space, only fifty-five percent showed any interest in a parking area twenty minutes away from the Houses. With a tacit understanding between police and students owning out-of-state vehicles, most men found it convenient to leave cars on the street overnight, secure in the knowledge that their tickets would not be prosecuted. This autumn, in an effort to recoup the imposing loss of 1500 unpaid fines, parking meters have been...