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...effort to avoid outside encroachment, the press in two states Massachusetts and Oregon, has already adopted voluntary codes that circumscribe the reporting of court procedures. The Massachusetts guide, for example, which is followed by half the dailies in the state, suggests that papers refrain from printing court testimony that has been stricken from the record, pretrial confessions, and criminal records unless introduced as evidence...
...large part of his last two decades receiving the accolades of national affection. But there is a perverse quality of dismissal about a nation's affection, as if the recipient were being asked while still alive to mount a bronze horse, assume a statuary stare, and to refrain from doing anything that would require the recutting of the inscription on his pedestal...
...Mechanized Brigade rolled into Stan, spearheaded by the tough white fighters of Major Mike Hoare, 44, a starchy South African who served behind Japanese lines in Burma under Britain's mystical guerrilla warfare expert, Orde Wingate. No mystic himself, Hoare insisted that his 300 men stay neatly shaved, refrain from drinking beer before battle, but cared not a whit what they did otherwise. Mostly South Africans and Rhodesians, they gave no quarter to any black resembling a rebel...
...varsity coaches need not go out of their way to discourage interested and capable athletes. An incident reported in the Nov. 10 CRIMSON points this out. How many Askold Kohimanns, driven to quit the varsity programs, are now on House teams? Second, the organizers of the House teams should refrain from high-pressure recruiting and the building up of excessive tension in the House program. Those really interested in playing will come out to games without being dragged by team captains or athletic secretaries. No one should be pressured to join a House team merely because he will give...
...posted notice, Mantini asked parents for "help in controlling your own children and keeping all entrance doors closed and locked." He also cautioned residents to "refrain from answering your buzzer unless you are expecting visitors...