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Carlton Wallace Miller, 43, a Meridian police sergeant who received $2,400 from the FBI over a two-year period, testified that the Meridian chapter of the White Knights of the Klan had marked Schwerner for "elimination-the term for murdering someone." To lure Schwerner from Meridian, where he and his wife Rita were operating a Negro community center, said Miller, Klansmen burned down the Mount Zion (Negro) Church at Longdale, outside Philadelphia. Five days later, Schwerner and two companions, Goodman, a white man, and Chancy, a Negro, drove 50 miles to Longdale to inspect the ruins of the church...
Brave Popularizers. Rousseau apart, the brio of the age sings through its people-Gluck and Burke, Goethe and Charles III, Sheridan and Mirabeau, Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great-who occupies a chapter of special delight. The volume is scattershot with fascinating and sometimes trivial notes: Mozart early in his career used to send obscene letters to relatives; in 18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot...
...teaching fellows will also seek Faculty members willing to serve on a proposed committee under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors. The committee, if the AAUP chapter agrees to set it up, would study the teaching fellows' situation at Harvard...
Last Sunday there were signs posted all around the Common reading: "Walking, Standing, Or Sitting Upon The Grass Is Prohibited. Revised ordinance, chapter 29, section 85." But people--hundreds of them--were walking, standing, or sitting upon the grass. No one was arrested, no one reprimanded...
...real decision-making is accomplished largely within a number of overlapping committees -- sometimes set up to deal with temporary problems -- and by the elected executive board. Although affiliated with national SDS, the Harvard chapter, like its counterparts at most schools, runs its own show. Last year, again like branches across the country, Harvard SDS showed signs of becoming increasingly radical...