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Langer to Speak At 3rd Law Forum

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A United States senator and two representatives will discuss "The Realignment of Political Parties" in the term's third Law School forum at 8 p.m. tonight in the Rindge Tech auditorium.

Senator William Langer (R., N.D.) will appear with Representatives Jacob M. Javits (R., N.Y.), and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (D., N.Y.). Paul A. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, will moderate the forum, and the Forum office indicated last night that a fourth speaker might still be added.

Senator Langer, who supported LaFollette each time he ran for the Presidency, and is an ardent member of the farm bloc, has been in politics since 1920 and a senator since 1940.

Elected to Congress in 1946, Javitz introduced the National Health Act of 1950, providing for federal-state aid to medical facilities as an alternative to the proposed national health insurance plan. He also sponsored the Education Act of 1950 prohibiting racial discrimination in government-subsidized colleges.

Representative Powell became New York's first Negro councilman in 1941. He was elected to Congress in 1944 and is a co-founder of the National Negro Congress.

Freund on Wednesday attacked the American Bar Association's recent decision to ban from membership all advocates of "Marxism-Leninism" as doing more harm than good

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