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Even in this sphere he has succeeded magnificently on occasion. His Great Society speech at Ann Arbor in 1964 offered Americans a stirring vision. The moment in 1965 when he stood before Congress and, in a televised appeal for passage of his voting-rights bill, cast his lot for the Negro's demand for equality by declaring "We shall overcome," was the emotional high point of his presidency to date. His speech at Howard University in June 1965, calling on Americans "to shatter forever not only the barriers of law and public practice, but the walls which bound the condition...
...Products Co., George B. Kilborne, 37, a Yale classmate of Parsons', and George W. Miller, 43, whom the group tapped to become president of Commonwealth after its takeover. Their acquisitions include banks in Lansing, Royal Oak, Kalamazoo and Coopersville, as well as office buildings in Detroit and Ann Arbor and interests in small business corporations in Detroit and New York. The more they expand, the more irritated Detroit bankers become. But Group Leader Parsons, already a millionaire, says he has no quarrel with anyone. "There is plenty there for everyone," he insists...
Robert Strange McNamara is somewhat the epitome of the University cool-liberal. He went to Berkeley and then to Harvard. He taught at Ann Arbor. He recites Yeats. He led a movement to abolish ROTC as a student. He is well-to-do. He has a computer-brain. He is cool and aloof. Robert Strange McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, was looking out of the window of his Pentagon office, watching the confrontation below last Saturday. Maybe he was wondering what his liberal brain was thinking...
ROBERT W.L. SMITH Ann Arbor, Mich...
...have tapped a rich lode of pacifism in the U.S. public. Agencies to aid draft evaders dot the nation like acne. The "Viet Nam Summer" movement, largely sponsored by a group of Harvard professors, has rung doorbells in 46 states urging political action to end the war. From Ann Arbor to Boston and in 13 other communities, it has tried to get antiwar resolutions onto the ballots for this fall's municipal elections...