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...cold roast-beef luncheon in a clover field on a 225-acre farm and then filed into the red barn for the readings. Most of the poets were middle-aged or more, and on the whole they celebrated a touching and suspended pastoral world savoring of a benign Frost. Some of the more modern verses, though, dealt with hippies and urban loneliness. Winner of the first prize ($15) was "Summer Sanctuary...
Unlike other Latin American terrorists, Uruguay's leftist guerrillas have cultivated a romantic image. Styling themselves the Tupamaros, after an 18th century Inca chief who led a revolt against Spain, they confined their activities mostly to robbing banks and tried to avoid bloodshed. That benign image was shattered earlier this month when they emulated the tactics of other Latin American insurrectionists by kidnaping three foreign officials. In return for the hostages' lives, the terrorists demanded the release...
Civil rights and militant groups attacked a proposal contained in a confidential memorandum to the President on proper Administration stance toward the problems of blacks. As leaked to the press, the memorandum suggested a policy of "benign neglect" toward blacks, and urged the President instead to pay more attention to low-income and working-class whites...
...calculated appeal to hardhat militancy, insisting that the report "deals with all people in a certain economic status, regardless of race." But it is not lost on the White House that winning the hearts and votes of white workingmen and women will require more than a program of "benign neglect...
...latest of which is pollution and the ecology." He listed some specific Government acts that he contended have "given encouragement to the Southern racists." Among them were the nominations of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and George Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Pat Moynihan memo suggesting a "benign neglect" of racial problems and the Administration's initial support, now reversed, of tax exemption for "white, separate private schools...