City to Discuss Refusal of Permit For CRCC Rally

Leaders of Sunday's civil rights protest have arranged a meeting with Cambridge officials this morning to discuss Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan's refusal to grant a parade permit for the demonstration.

As of last night, the Civil Right Coordinating Committee was going ahead with its plans for the protest, but was still seeking clarification of its legal rights in the case.

According to Reuben Goodman '35, a lawyer who is advising CRCC, the parade permit could be denied legally only in case of a "mechanical conflict" such as a potential traffic jam. CRCC plans a march from the Common to the Central Square Post Office, but expects to confine demonstrators to the sidewalk.

"The whole function of a permit is to notify the police in order that they can have enough officers on duty," Goodman said.

Attending the meeting are Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, City Solicitor Richard D. Gerould '24, Brennan, Goodman, Gerald A. Berlin, former assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and another CRCC advisor, and Peter Cummings '66, one of the leaders of the demonstration.

Meanwhile, four Harvard faculty members have accepted invitations to attend the rally on the Common Sunday at 1:30 p.m., and nine others have endorsed the demonstration.

Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, and honorary chairman of the program, will deliver a short address. Also at the rally will be Martin L. Kilson, Jr., lecturer on Government; Richard D. Mann, assistant professor of Social Psychology; and Nadav Safran, assistant professor of Government.

Those endorsing the demonstration are Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government; John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government; Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law; and H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History.

Others include William Liller '48, Robert Whealer Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy; Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History; and David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences.