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...President Pusey and most of Harvard's dean went to Cincinnati for the annual convention of the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA). At a morning meeting, the AHA Board of Directors passed a resolution commending the administration and urging that student involved in future violent demonstration should be expelled. But the statement also said that Harvard needed "open-minded consideration of creative solutions" to end the current crisis. Pusey spoke to 1000 alumni at a convention banquet and told them that radical students were trying to turn the University into a political battleground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shook the University... | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...Negro is seeking "reparations" for being exploited, perhaps he should turn to the descendants of the African chieftains who so freely sold their own tribesmen to the American slave traders. DAVID B. PERRY Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 30, 1969 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...GREW UP across the street from the Gilligan household in Cincinnati. I have always been a little awed by the impressive range of subjects on which my neighbor could deliver a fairly erudite opinion. But the last four years have been discouraging for Gilligan watchers, bringing three hard-fought battles and two narrow losses in unfriendly Republican territory. First came the nationally-covered Congressional race with Robert Taft, Jr., heir to the Taft political dynasty in Cincinnati. Then the loss to Saxbe, a nonentity on whom the state GOP lavished millions to defeat the man Republicans considered Ohio...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: John Gilligan | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Though he could not afford to answer Saxbe's advertising campaign, Gilligan still would have won but for the disastrous returns from hometown Cincinnati. He had expected to come out about even there, but he ended up losing two to one. The morning daily had contributed by running a front-page editorial which claimed that a vote for Gilligan would be a vote for every arsonist and rapist in the state...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: John Gilligan | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...night after Martin Luther King's death, Cincinnati had issued a curfew which threatened to punish violators with up to a year in jail and a $500 fine. Though most of those convicted had not heard about the curfew, ninety were processed and sentenced in a bizarre mass trial held the night of the arrests. When Gilligan called the trials a joke, press and public reacted hysterically. "Arson and rape" became the decisive ingredients in his defeat next November...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: John Gilligan | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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