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...almost too familiar in the Republican bastion that gave Nixon his largest margin against John Kennedy in 1960. Headed by Ted Sorensen's brother Philip, former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor, Kennedy's team last week was busily imitating McCarthy tactics by dispatching scores of student volunteers to canvass at least 200,000 Democratic households. In Indiana, Bobby's admirers had become dangerously demonstrative. Jostled by crowds in Mishawaka, he banged his upper lip on a car, chipping a front tooth...
From their point of view, the reporters had reason to complain. The McCarthy organization could muster thousands of volunteers from throughout the nation to canvass Wisconsin voters for the Senator, but it often broke down when confronted with the more sophisticated parts of running a campaign, particularly the delicate job of managing the media...
Every volunteer--after a January of indecision, disorganization and seeming disaster--has now been effectively put to work. Those whose hair is too long or who refuse to shave their beards or moustaches canvass by phone, handle the mailings, and sort canvass cards--helping with the office work that just a few people were doing several weeks...
...petition calling for the impeachment of President Johnson will be circulated around Harvard in the next eight weeks. Citizens for Governmental Restraint--the group that has drawn up the petition--will canvass 35 campuses across the nation...
Students can most effectively fight the draft by forming a draft union, Dyen says. Harvard SDS hopes to establish an effective draft union and canvass the entire senior class within the first four weeks of this semester. The union would organize students to resist the draft and provide support for their confrontations with authority, by staging demonstrations at induction centers and possibly boycotts of classes. The Harvard draft union would also be an anti-war organization, distributing films, planning demonstrations...