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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly an hour, the Council debated minor points in the proposal (What does "rally" mean? Does a question period have to be included in a broadcast...
...series of radio and newspaper advertisements sponsored by the Democratic State Committee, warned voters that "the Communists in Vietnam are watching the New Hampshire primary." Broadcast four times an hour on radio stations across the state, they caution against voting "for fuzzy thinking and surrender." On Friday, Governor King charged that a good showing by McCarthy would be "greeted with cheers in Hanoi...
...which appears to have in no way significantly departed from the Ivory Tower of the past. Only instead of an Ivory Tower, the university's protective wall is called "value-freedom." "Technology," Harvard's President explains, "cannot be used to support an opinion." Hence television is not used to broadcast a recent Vietnam teach-in. (How the dissemination of opinions differs from the dissemination of information is left unexplained, unless one assumes that the teach-in was totally devoid of any information whatsoever.) The renunciation of social obligation is the same; the harm wreaked is infinitely worse. Value freedom allows...
Chances are, however, that tonight's game (to be broadcast over WHRB beginning at 8 p.m.) will result in neither extreme outcome. Harvard has performed well at Ithaca in the last two years, losing only by narrow 7-6 and 4-3 scores. And on the other hand, in its three years of ascendancy, Coach Ned Harkness's team has never lost an important Ivy game. The token defeats--to Harvard, Yale, and this season Brown--have been significant only as demonstrations that Cornell could lose...
There was this marvelous juxtaposition. The Armed Forces Vietnam Network, which has a news broadcast for five minutes every hour on the hour, would come on first with this bland statement by General Westmoreland about the victory we are winning and how Saigon has now been completely retaken and that there are just pockets of resistance left. And that would be followed at the end of the news by an important anouncement to all American personnel: All American personnel are required to stay in their billets until further notice. There is a 24-hour curfew for all American personnel...