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...decisions on the Braden and Wilkinson cases "were not meant to give the Court's blessing" to the HUAC. The decisions, he explained, "merely said Congress had the right to keep such an absurd body going." He remarked, "If the Supreme Court were the House, it would vote to abolish the Committee...
Organizations like the Committee for Nonviolent Action, of which Keyes and Itkin are members, perform essential functions in nation-wide attempts to abolish the arms development contest. Already their demonstrations against the Omaha, Neb., missile ground and protests against nuclear submarines have attracted national attention...
Aware that Hickman's stringent practice demands were depriving the players of freedom to pursue off-season academic and extra-curricular interests, Griswold decided to abolish spring practice at Yale. He announced the unilateral move to the seven other Ivy presidents at a meeting of the Ivy League Policy Committee...
...peace appeal, went to jail for violating a Kentucky sedition law. Frank Wilkinson, onetime public information director of the Los Angeles Housing Authority, has for eight years refused to say whether he is a member of the Communist Party, is field representative of something called the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee. In Atlanta three years ago, Braden and Wilkinson were called up as witnesses before an Un-American Activities subcommittee checking on Communist infiltration and propaganda in the South. Both men refused to say if they were Communists. Instead of calling on the Fifth Amendment...
...counter-demonstrators' whose read, "Abolish the Un-Ameri- Activities Committee," lay just to a venerable tradition of rican dissent. Their rivals in attan Center upheld a different age. They called themselves ng Americans for Freedom," their posters honored Senator y Goldwater, who would key- their meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they...