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...leader of the Negro group, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, told a news conference that the U.S. attorney general's office had asked for a moratorium on their direct-action fight. Shuttlesworth turned down the request, saying, "Many of us are willing to die, if necessary, on the streets of Birmingham." He stated that the next major step would be a mass hunger strike if all else fails...
Three years ago Pusey bowed to considerable pressure to institute standardized room rents in all freshman dormitories, but he insisted that a three year moratorium be declared on discussion about extending uniform rates to the Houses...
...watch, both before and after an operation, for signs of liver disorder. Stanford's Dr. John Bunker, one of a team reporting two deaths, says that "on the basis of what seems to be an almost infinitesimal number of complications from halothane, I don't think a moratorium on the drug is justifiable now." The Food and Drug Administration, still studying the reports, was inclined to agree. Some claims for halothane may have been too good to be true, but the anesthetic is still too good to lose...
...bring all Christians closer together, the time may have come for U.S. Protestants and Catholics to review "the whole matter of public school education." This is about as far as ecumenicism got. Stuber urged Catholic bishops to accept "the spirit and purpose of Pope John" and "declare a moratorium on their campaign for federal aid to parochial schools...
...Boxes. The chance of a workable nuclear test-ban treaty seemed equally remote. Actually. Khrushchev first agreed to the principle of on-site inspections way back in 1959, when Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan was in Moscow, only to shelve it after he broke the three-year test moratorium in 1961. But having concluded his own latest nuclear test series. Khrushchev doubtless figures that he has little to lose from an effort to stop all testing-for a while...