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...City University of New York recognizes no such freedom. In the last month Hunter College has made public a decision to refuse to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Queens College has vetoed student invitations to Black Muslim leader Malcolm X and to Benjamin J. Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; and Brooklyn College has put off a scheduled speech by State Assemblyman Mark Lane, because he had been arrested as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi...
...makings of an excellent comedy. Working from the Irish proverb, "A woman's chastity is a sty in the eye of the Devil," he develops the story of a devil plagued with a sore eye, which his advisors attribute to a Swedish vicar's careful daughter. The arch fiend considers his resources and finally decides Don Juan is the man to remedy the situation...
Contending that he was presenting grass-roots sentiment in Texas, the arch-conservative publisher read: "We need a man on horseback to lead this nation and many people in Texas and the Southwest think that you are riding Caroline's tricycle. The American people are aroused and rightly so. They are, as a body, way ahead of Washington. If you don't believe this, read the letters from readers' columns in most United States newspapers. The general opinion of the grass-roots thinking in this country is that you and your Administration are weak sisters...
With an adequately offensive diplomatic police, the free nations of the West can destroy the Communist threat, the now arch-democratic former pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne claimed last night...
...seat is more than 92 ft. from the stage. Designed by Chicago Architects Rapp & Rapp, the Fisher also has a giant aluminum acoustical screen that drops from the balcony ceiling, reducing its capacity by 402 seats in order to improve the conditions for intimate drama. Similarly, the proscenium arch is made of sliding panels so that the stage can be narrowed for small shows and broadened for spectacles...