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...beginning would be arbitrary. So we may as well start with October 26, 1962, with Barrington Moore, then a senior fellow in the Russian Research Center, telling 1000 people in Lowell Lecture Hall (another thousand had been turned away) that "simultaneous revolutions" in the U.S. and the USSR represented the only "realistic prospect of peace." Moreover, Moore told students alarmed by what they considered dangerous American bellicosity over the Soviet Union's stationing missiles in Cuba that "realistic or moderate" protests like theirs "ran the risk" of suggesting that public opinion influenced American foreign policy. Students should leave "constructive alternatives...
...that about finished Tocsin--at least, as Tocsin. Increasingly, students interested in disarmament were also becoming interested in other issues--the civil rights movement, most notably. In a few years, these other interests would lead many of them to accept Barrington Moore's analysis, and to act on it in ways that he, in company with Hughes and the majority of Harvard's other faculty members, would consider misguided or reprehensible. But for the moment, interests in civil rights and community organizing just led many Tocsin people to drift into the other leftist groups that were starting to surface...
...Indochina war just kept on getting bigger, and to increasing numbers of students it seemed to provide blatant, explosive proof that there might be some truth to analyses like Barrington Moore's or Mario Savio's--that Savio's "managerial tyranny" with little interest in truth or anything else worth respecting was trying to manage their lives, and generally succeeding. SDS, continuing its block-by-block organizing around local issues in Roxbury and North Harvard but increasingly returning to its predecessor Tocsin's roots in antiwar organizing, doubled its 100 members in the fall...
Comet Flight. Excitement about the comet is not confined to scientists. Planetariums round the world are drawing overflow crowds for Kohoutek shows. Telescopes and binoculars are being sold at an exceptionally brisk pace; Edmund Scientific Co., of Barrington, N.J., reports a 200% gain this year in its sale of telescopes; Los Angeles' Marschutz Optical Co. is completely sold out. This week the Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed from New York, booked to the gunwales with 1,693 passengers on a three-day comet cruise. Before dawn every morning, passengers were invited to the decks for telescope viewing and comet lectures...
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