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March 11--About 400 demonstrators chant "hail to the chief" outside of the Harvard Club as Vice President Gerald Ford accepts the Harvard Young Republican's man-of-the-year award. In his acceptance address to the Club, Ford says he is convinced of President Nixon's innocence in the Watergate affair...
...minority separatism is nothing new). The Zionists send their youths to experimental farms known as kibbutzim to train them for settling the Promised Land. Hassidim responded to the Jewish interwar political explosion by renewing orthodoxy. The Jewish Socialist Bund--"We're the young brigade of the proletariat," the children chant--stands at the fore of the trade union movement. There are labor Zionists on the left and revisionist Zionists on the right. Opposed to the Zionists are those who uphold the values of the Diaspora--the Jewish dispersion--and promote the cause of civil and political minority rights, supposedly enshrined...
...contretemps with a rival fan at the finals was equally mindless. The L.S.U. follower walked up to Knight in a hotel bar and congratulated the coach on his victory. Knight, evidently taking personally the traditional L.S.U. chant Tiger Bait! Tiger Bait!, responded sharply: "We weren't tiger bait after all, were we?" The fan shouted an obscenity; Knight dared him to repeat it. When he did, the coach slammed him into the wall. Unrepentant, Knight declared proudly the following day that he would do it again...
...long work, it subsides into a reflective passage in which background vocalists solemnly intone 'DOOM DOOM DOOM' as the showers of a solo violin fall overhead. Then it culminates in an ending chant, with an Eastern/bagpipe-style guitar riff in the Tom Verlaine tradition. Who are the mystery kids? What makes them hopeless Jeffreys never pronounces. Perhaps there is no answer...
...helmets and gas masks, armed with rifles and riot sticks, charge University Hall in systematic thrusts. State police drag bloodied protesters out of the building, where they will arrest nearly 300. "If you don't stay there I'll break your fuckin head," a cop shouts. Still the students chant. "Smash ROTC...