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...report makes clear that the Overseers do not wish to interfere in the operations of the faculty committees or to act for the University's administrative officers. But at the same time, the laymen trustees should know fully what is going on and "give or withhold consent, having the interests of society and of the University in view...
...weeks ago, Roberto Rossellini's latest film, "The Miracle," was scheduled to come to Boston. Recent attacks on this film in New York however have caused its American distributors temporarily to withhold leases on the picture. These attacks are a direct attempt to smother the public's freedom of choice...
...Brinks case and of allowing graft. When the lone Republican member of the Metropolitan District Commission requested a look into the Commission's files last month, the four Democratic members refused. The Republicans went to the Supreme Court and received permission. But the Democrats used a legal technicality to withhold action until after the election, neither appealing the court decision nor opening the files...
...above all, what the U.S. had to do from now on would depend largely on what the Soviet Union did. "I shall not attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that new recourse to aggression in the world today might well strain to the breaking point the fabric of world peace...
...into his operas. He put his concern with faith into The Medium; he was raised a Roman Catholic, and although he says he has lost his religious faith, "I have not lost faith in faith." In The Consul his thesis is "To this we've come; that men withhold the world from...