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...combat with the N.R.A. was occasioned by The Guns of Autumn, a documentary that purported to describe hunting in America. In 90 minutes, Director-Writer Irv Drasnin, a journalist for 15 years but not a hunter, compiled carnage upon atrocity. Black bears were slaughtered at a Michigan garbage dump by tourists with rifles. A gang of rednecks with the latest electronic gear treed a bear, then watched hounds rip it apart. Explained the pack's leader: "We feel that they deserve a chew." A pert stewardess plunked down $500 to "harvest" her first buffalo; then she pointed...
...N.R.A. remains complacent. Its membership, the association claims, is growing as a result of the publicity. "Hunters are not the slobs and killers that the show made us out to be," maintains an organization official. "Guns of Autumn didn't show people going out and really enjoying the companionship of others, the wonders of being outdoors or how the hunter has restored the wildlife habitat...
Unmoved, the network plans a sequel next week, Echoes of the Guns of Autumn, about the controversy. Says Bill Leonard, CBS senior vice president, "Nothing would so guarantee that a broadcast would get on the air than that kind of pressure...
...plans for the commuter center--the rough equivalent of Dudley House--had grown firm enough for Charles P. Whitlock, present dean of Harvard College and then Dudley's Allston Burr Senior Tutor, to discuss publicly the size of the proposed building. That autumn The Crimson even carried a sketch of tentative plans for the five-story building, which was to be erected shortly after what is now the new part of Quincy House. The Crimson story concluded by stating that the commuter center would "definitely" be built on the Mt. Auburn-Plympton St. corner...
...mini-step? How much will he have to pay? The Americans have committed themselves to the same historical mistake they made in Viet Nam, when they started with consultants and experts and ended up with more than a half million men. When we went to the United Nations last autumn, we went looking for the support of all peoples, including the U.S. It is very unfortunate that the U.S. sees only the Israeli position and looks through Israeli binoculars, ignoring the 3.5 million Palestinians with all their potentials and capabilities. Thus for the Palestinians, the U.S. and Israeli lines...