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Brooke himself has not emphasized racial issues in previous campaigns. Yet, though his Democratic opponent, former Governor Endicott Peabody, 46, is an ardent civil rights advocate, Brooke has seen his early lead threatened by anti-Negro reaction, and of late has denounced both Stokely Carmichael and Lester Maddox as "the extremists of black power and white power...
...fight is still brewing over the Cambridge School Committee's refusal to permit a Young Democrat-sponsored speech by Stokely Carmichael at Rindge Technical High School. The controversy has prompted the Committee to discuss a formal policy for future Harvard speakers at the school. The new policy calls on Harvard to make some important concessions on its responsibility in the presentation of speakers. In exchange, the School Committee offers nothing...
...discussion requires that Harvard organizations attempt to find Harvard facilities for their speakers. If they cannot, Dean Watson himself must ask the School Committee for the use of Rindge. Yet under this "compromise," the School Committee reserves the right to reject a speaker for the same reasons it rejected Carmichael before the agreement...
While closing the door on the possibility of Carmichael's spjeaking at Rindge, the Committee continued its attempt to define a formal policy to deal with future incidents involving the use of city school facilities by controversial speakers...
According to Ackerman a policy with those qualifications would not prevent a repetition of the Carmichael incident. She and the Committee liberals support an amendment offered last night by Francis H. Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, which would strike the phrase "deems in the interest of the community" and leave the Committee with power to reject only speakers that might incite a riot...