Word: cancellation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actual disruption of the lecture took place, but expectations that demonstrators would attempt to force Land to discuss Polaroid's policies in South Africa led the Physics Department to cancel the lecture shortly before it was due to begin...
Robert V. Pound, chairman of the Physics Department and one of the professors who made the decision to cancel the lecture, said yesterday that he had not expected that the demonstrators would completely prevent Land from giving his prepared lecture. He said he thought they would let the lecture proceed once the South African question had been discussed. But, he said, raising the issues would have created an unsuitable climate for the lecture...
...followers assembled near the Interior Ministry, nerve center of Italy's police and government communications network. They never received the go-ahead. Instead, Borghese was mysteriously warned that his ultra-rightist National Front had long since been infiltrated and the plot was known. Reluctantly Borghese agreed to cancel the coup. By way of consolation, he treated his commanders to a late spaghetti supper...
...beckoned McCarty, an official of the American Conservative Party, and Laszlo Pasztor '73, a member of Students for a Just Peace, the sponsoring group, and asked them to cancel the meeting...
...report the Commission found that "under the special circumstances of the event it was perfectly understandable for members of the Physics Department to cancel the lecture...