Word: accession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ailment for which pornography could be indicted, the 622-page majority report concluded that there was "no warrant for continued governmental interference with the full freedom of adults to read, obtain or view" sexually explicit materials. The report went on to advocate repeal of all laws curbing adults' access to pornography. It proposed, however, that children be shielded from commercially distributed materials. Further, it urged that certain public displays of pictures be banned from "public thoroughfares." But, said the commission, sex education should be expanded and improved while research on pornography continues...
Continuing what Boston After Dark called his "mea culpa" stance, Schottland pledged full cooperation with police officials including access to all records- aademic, medical, psychiatric, biographical- and open entry to any campus building. If there is any reluctance, "I will personally see that it is done," he added...
...decided at the outset that it would make the following considerations in deciding whether to accept a particular country's bid to become a client government: 1) the academic interest posed by that country's development problems; 2) the likelihood of gaining access to vital economic information and 3) the possibility of doing concrete good while confining itself to working within the policy strictures of the host government. On these bases the DAS accepted some project proposals and rejected others in turn...
This undertaking, the Fellows' Program, consisted of bringing fifteen men together for one year at Harvard; a weekly seminar program, combined with unlimited access to the scholarly and intellectual resources of the University, would facilitate, it was hoped, "a franker, more productive discussion of foreign policy problems than would be possible if the same individuals were negotiating across tables for their governments," according to Edward S. Mason, former deputy assistant Secretary of State and another of the principal founders of the Center...
...Thus, access to the broader skills and knowledge of the U. S. academic community is required. Foundations, as sources of economic surplus generated out of specific enterprises and applied to the stabilization of the system as a whole, are the mechanism through which academia is most thoroughly adapted to the purposes of those who control policy. The Ford Foundation, for example, is the main source of support for 56 per cent of the approximately 200 university foreign affairs centers in the U. S. It has been a major source for centers at Columbia. Chicago, Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Harvard, Indiana...