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America's Penchant. Washington, like Philadelphia, is still forcefully lobbying to win the designation, and Vice President Spiro Agnew and Maryland's Senator Joseph Tydings are active in lobbying for the capital. Also rooting for Washington are the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, plus the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
Nominees range, in the words of Francis Burr, "from S.I. Hayakawa and Spiro Agnew on the right to Norman Mailer and Jerry Rubin on the left." For what job? Burr, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is leading the search for a successor to Harvard President Nathan Pusey, who is stepping down next June. This gives Burr a year to find one. He has made a semipublic appeal for nominations, and there is even a telephone answering service on campus that records the favorite choice of any interested party...
cussion of whether there should be a demonstration against the Vice-President at the Sheraton-Cleveland. The SDS-PL group put forward the idea that there should not only be a demonstration against Agnew, but also one against Mayor Carl Stokes. They claimed that Stokes was against the workers, even though he was black. They referred to the calling out of the National Guard to break the postal workers' strike. The planners of the conference wanted instead only to have a peaceful and orderly demonstration in front of the Sheraton against Agnew...
...motion to demonstrate against Agnew or Agnew-and-Stokes was then put to a vote, and the moderate proposal won. This part of the meeting had been chaired by Dan Gurewitz, national coordinator...
...rest of the afternoon was taken up with discussion of what the future tactics of the antiwar movement should be. The meeting broke up in time for the demonstration against Agnew...