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...slight, spry and witty Scotsman, Campbell enjoys his assignment, even when his insistence on factual stories makes him unpopular with government supporters. "They criticize you after things appear." he says,"but they don't interfere with reporting. They attack, you -in the press, even in Parliament. But you can call the State Information Office the next day and they'll treat you with scrupulous courtesy...
...some reason, Council members seemed to think that this plan requires scrapping one of the rules revisions they recommended last Fall: "... substituting a provision requiring groups to show, not give, membership lists when applying to use Harvard facilities." Currently concerned with the Harvard facilities." Currently concerned with the trouble unpopular associations may cause undergraduates in the future, they have forgotten the trouble it may cause them while in college. It may be unlikely that anyone would subpoena membership lists out of War son's office, but it is legally possible...
There is no reason to subject unpopular groups to this risk. The Council's new plan would work no less smoothly if a few groups could present their lists periodically instead of putting them on record for a year. In fact, since members of unpopular groups who object to being on record for a year are usually the ones who would scratch their names from permanent listing, there would be fewer revisions needed when the time came to shift records from temporary to permanent status...
...would the Deans lost anything by abolishing compulsory lists, since they could still assure themselves of organizations' purity whenever they pleased. All that would be gained by maintaining the current rule is the continued frustration, if not strangulation, of groups espousing unpopular ideas. To make their proposal complete, Council members should modify it to include their earlier and sounder recommendation...
...mayor, who goes to church regularly, made a big stir one Sunday by getting to his feet as the priest was reading a pastoral letter to the congregation, and crying out: "Enough! Get on with the Mass. We are getting cold." That made him unpopular; besides, the Communists did not build the aqueduct they promised. Chances are, Anticolani will vote Demo-Christian-but not because they support the Atlantic pact or concern themselves with the East-West struggle. A reporter who talked to Anticolani last week found only one who had heard of the pact...