Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last April the Times editorialized: "President Johnson's offer of 'unconditional discussions' was a splendid move on the diplomatic/political front, in the effort to achieve a peaceful solution of the quarrel." Sulzberger dissented: "It is fair to ask why Mr. Johnson chose this moment seemingly to alter a Viet Nam strategy that had but recently become more resolute. Waving a carrot may be seen by our adversaries as a sign of weakness." Times editorials have consistently called for deescalation: "What the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam is playing directly into the hands of Communist China...
...Radcliffe Class of 1966 chose the following students as class marshals in last week's election: Caroline G. Balderston '66 of Jordan and Glen Mills, Penn: Julia W. Cheever '66 of 83 Brattle St. and Pittsburgh, Penn.; Julia M. Taylor '66 of Wolbach Hall and Mill Valley, Calif.; Stephanie R. Wecker '66 of Wolbach Hall and Riverdale. N.Y.; and Beverly Winikeff '66 of Comstock Hall and New York...
...interviewed for this study are sophomores and juniors between the ages of 18 and 20. On the street you could not distinguish them from other students, and they have little in common except that they have all taken marijuana or LSD during their last two years at Harvard. I chose to single out pot and LSD because they seem to define the extremes of the spectrum of drug experiences at Harvard--from dabbler...
Died. Victor Kravchenko, 61, wartime Soviet .defector, an army captain who sought asylum while on duty as a supply officer in Washington in 1944, briefly held the limelight with his best-selling I Chose Freedom (1946), later changed his name to "Peter Martin" because "I am an American" and continued his writings, though he lived in constant fear of Red reprisal; by his own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in his Manhattan apartment, where friends said he had been depressed over the Viet Nam war "and other things...
...Jubilee Committee chose "The Animals" on the basis of a poll of freshmen taken last month. Other choices offered were the "Kingsmen," the "Chad Mitchell Trio," the "Lettermen," and Stan Getz...