Word: moratorium
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...revivified politician on the march, offering his traditional recipe of pugnacity and eloquence. At Wake Forest University in North Carolina, he spoke on race: "Let us now join hearts and hands-black and white, brown and yellow, adult and child, in the single cause of America." He demanded a "moratorium on the vocabulary of violence." On Viet Nam: "The struggle for peace is not for the weak, the cowardly or the timid. It is for the brave and courageous." On the Administration's critics: "Deception, doubt and despair-that is the litany of the men who sell America short...
Besides the change in admissions policy, the Faculty voted a moratorium on classes as a first step in reforming its urban-related curricula. Curriculum reform is important: the Ed School has a responsibility to make sure it provides teachers with a good grasp of ghetto realities. But the Ed School could produce more as well as better teachers for ghetto classrooms by recruiting white students interested in urban teaching...
Asked whether he would observe the proposed moratorium, Barnard answered with an unhesitating "No, I would not." If other surgeons wished to, he suggested, that was their business. He insisted that he was guided by his own conscience, based on principles as old as the Hippocratic oath-that the physician must do everything in his power to save life, to restore health, and at the very least to alleviate suffering. Barnard conceded that in the case of Louis Washkansky he did not save life. But "in the case of Dr. Philip Blaiberg, I can say unhesitatingly that we have alleviated...
...drastic were the objections of a few eminent cardiologists at the San Francisco meeting. New Orleans' Dr. George E. Burch, the college's new president, joined Los Angeles' Dr. Eliot Corday and Manhattan's Dr. Simon Dack in calling for at least a three-month moratorium on heart transplants. The college's outgoing president, Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff, announced a conference of leading physicians, lawyers and theologians, to be held late this month in Bethesda, Md., to discuss the legal, ethical and practical aspects of transplants. And then there is the resolution, proposed...
...decision-making process. After all, the agency has yet to settle a dispute over a certain frequency allotment claimed by Manhattan radio station WABC and Albuquerque's KOB; that matter has been pending since 1941. And when the House Commerce Committee recently requested a one-year moratorium on any FCC rules on pay TV, the commission did not mind very much-since the FCC had already managed to avoid settling the issue for 13 years...