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After that, the festival's sponsors chose to drop Blackboard from the program. But MGM's Dore Schary raged: "What Ambassador Luce has done represents flagrant political censorship." Italy's Communists, of course, agreed, and, in the ensuing verbal brouhaha, sight was lost of the fact that no censorship had been imposed by either the Italian or U.S. governments. All that had happened was that Europeans had been informed that not all Americans are content to receive their mail addressed to "Tobacco Road...
...penal codes in the United States are probably the most flagrant infringements of personal liberties that exist, and it is fine to see that we have thinking jurists who recommend that our churches, schools and parental influences should guide our morals...
...some 1,500 student car-owners at the College, the spring of 1955 has hardly been an auspicious one. First University Hall placed a dozen undergraduates on probation for "flagrant" parking violations, and then local citizens, led by Councilman Edward J. Sullivan, demanded that the University permit only seniors to have automobiles at school. Together these two events have seemingly jeopardized the undergraduate's car-owning privilege. At the very least they have caused the student to await with apprehension the Administration's next decision on the parking problem...
...University parking fines so that they correspond to those of the city, and so that students would no longer derive a financial advantage from keeping their cars unregistered. More important, the Administration should renounce its vague policy of placing undergraduates on probation for indefinite parking violations described only as "flagrant." It should, in the words of the Council, "make a definite statement of the number and types of offenses which could lead to this action." It would thereby eliminate an arbitrary "justice" that could certainly not be applied to local citizens outside the University...
...Administration's most flagrant missteps in the internal security field are well known. Among the martyrs have been Wolf Ladejinsky, who was declared a "security risk" by the Agriculture Department and then cleared and re-hired by the Foreign Operations Administration, and Professor Val Lorwin, whom the Justice Department indicted for perjury on what it later admitted were false grounds. The general faults of the security program have included its vague definition of a "security risk", its failure to provide legal officers at hearings, its lack of any machinery for appeals, and its refusal to let the accused employee confront...