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...Vanzetti told on being arrested were brought out as evidence of "consciousness of guilt." The defense agreed that the men were conscious of guilt, but claimed they believed they were being arrested for their politics and not for murder. Their interrogation took place during the "Red Scare," when alien radicals were being deported and fear of "bomb-throwers" and foreigners was rampant in the East...
...provision was kept virtually intact which required the University to make a 15-year check of the jobs and addresses of any alien it wants to employ at the accelerator and then submit the job application to the AEC for approval. In the final contract, the AEC will have ultimate authority to decide whether a Soviet bloc alien can be employed at the accelerator. This is the first time Harvard itself has not completely controlled all employment at the University...
...vote-seeking bigots of the state who, fortunately, are more vocal than influential. In the summer of 1959 two members of this element, one a member of the legislature and the other a former legislator, drew up a series of "charges" against a dozen university professors for teaching alien and subversive ideas. The board conducted its own investigation, and issued a statement that the charges were completely false, and further expressed confidence in the administration of the university...
Take Your Choice. To Russia's ruler, it had become all too clear that the recent flood of artistic expression-poetry readings before mass audiences, exhibits of modern paintings, jazz imported from abroad, books and articles about the Stalin terror-were becoming dangerous carriers of alien Western ideas, shaking the foundations of Communist society. Destalinization, touched off by Nikita Khrushchev himself at the 20th Party Congress in 1956, had gone...
...some of Nairobi's finest homes; but the Asians are for the most part small shopkeepers-duka wallahs to the Africans-and junior civil servants, who have never found middle-class security in their middle-class vocations. African nationalists have long complained that the Asians are a clannish, alien people whose only interest in Africa lies in the profits to be wrung from African customers. "The Indians are opportunists and quislings," cries Nyasaland's Prime Minister Hastings Banda. "Everywhere in the country they are taking business from African businessmen." The Asians make a habit of shipping much...