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...have changed comes in a reminiscence by Max Frankel, who recently left the New York Times Washington bureau to become the paper's Sunday editor. Writing in the Columbia Forum, Frankel recalls that during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, John Kennedy personally requested that the Times temporarily withhold exclusive information. His reason: if the Russians discovered prematurely how much the U.S. knew about their installations in Cuba, they would "take some action -like activating the missiles -and force him to attack." The request seemed reasonable. The previous year, however, the Times had quashed its story in advance...
...second appearance before the Senate this week, Berger argued that there is no precedent in Constitutional or English Parliamentary practice for the president to withhold information from Congress...
...They (college administrators) can't withhold funds just because they don't like what a campus paper prints," Haynsworth said...
Most film society members say they feel it is to their advantage to cooperate with the professional theaters because of the theaters' potential power to withhold films from the societies. Cyrus I. Harvey '47, owner of the Harvard Square, Brattle Square, and Central Cinemas is in a good position to wield this power. Harvey is one of the founding partners of Janus films, a major distributor of foreign films to both professional and non-professional groups. Janus often checks with Harvey's manager, Robert St. George, to okay a film before sending it to a Harvard society...
With such qualifications on their programming, WETA's response was to threaten no production at all unless CPB retracts its content control. "If the conditions become unbearable, as they apparently did for WETA," Rice commented, "WGBH itself may withhold production. The CPB board members are not our executive producers...