Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...decision involved a minor Communist Party official in Colorado named Mrs. Patricia Blau. Called as a witness in a federal grand-jury investigation in 1949, Mrs. Blau stood on her right to avoid selfincrimination, refused to say whether she knew anything about the party. She was tried for contempt, sentenced to a year in jail...
...pilot in the cockpit of a jet fighter on a combat mission is a busy man. Besides flying his skittish aircraft, he must navigate, search for ground targets, avoid enemy antiaircraft and watch out for enemy fighters. No pilot has enough hands, eyes and brains to do all these jobs perfectly. Last week the Air Force told how it had teamed up with William P. Lear, winner of the 1950 Collier Trophy for aviation, to take some of the job of flying and fighting the airplane off the jet pilot's neck...
...CRIMSON feels that Radcliffe has presumed a responsibility for news which can rightly lie only with a newspaper. The CRIMSON believes that if Radcliffe allows itself to take disciplinary action because of an inaccurate story, it is giving itself the right to censor stories to avoid "misrepresentation of Radcliffe policy" and by necessary extension this carries with it at least the threat of censorship to avoid publication of stories which Radcliffe would prefer not to be published. This threat of censorship is an inevitable consequence of application of college rules, disciplinary action, and finally probation in a case where...
...CRIMSON accepted her resignation last night and appointed John J. Sack '51 to the vacancy. The decision to name a Harvard editor as Radcliffe Bureau Chief, was made, according to the executive board, "to avoid attempts by Radcliffe officials to exercise any censorship over news stories about the Annex; Radcliffe cannot threaten Sack with expulsion...
America's Future's technique is to prepare 15-minute radio broadcasts on current events which local sponsors present all over the country. A good many of these programs avoid controversy; the president of the New York Stock Exchange discusses how everyone can invest his money in stocks. Or Gene Tunney talks on "Play the Game--the American...