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...TRIAL OF DR. SPOCK, THE REV. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., MICHAEL FERBER, MITCHELL GOODMAN, AND MARCUS RASKIN by Jessica Mitford. 272 pages. Knopf...
...movement" in open court. The charge was one of conspiring "to unlawfully, knowingly and willfully counsel, aid and abet" draft resistance. To make the conflict sharper still, the five defendants were all extremely reputable, particularly Benjamin Spock, the world's foremost and beloved baby doctor, and William Sloane Coffin, Yale's conscience-driven chaplain. They were, in fact, precisely the kind of men whose voices are supposed to be heard on key issues in a free society. Yet their voices had allegedly been jointly raised in support of violations...
...amiable Dr. Spock is warmly real in her prose. With apparent balance, she also shows how defense lawyers, instead of helping to cut through to moral essentials of the defendants' arguments, too often sowed confusion and sought the protection of sophistry and technicality. The least attractive result was Coffin's testimony to the effect that he was really helping, not hindering the draft, "because," as he explained, "turning in a draft card speeded up a man's induction and in no way impeded his induction...
...contrast, the Yale president praised two idealists-New York Mayor John Lindsay and Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin-as alumni who have been "quite unabashed, wholly unashamed of their high purpose." He urged his audience to affirm five propositions that give the lie to the cynic: "We know that happiness is more than material wellbeing, that conscience is more than simple fear, that love is more than sex, that moral authority is more than political power, and that community is more than organization." As for himself, Brewster added, he will continue to draw on what is perhaps the most important...
Simple Sandals. Ho's body, inside a glass coffin, was clad in a khaki tunic. At his feet was another glass box, containing the rubber sandals fashioned from used tires that symbolized his ascetic style. Behind the coffin were black-fringed national and party flags. "Hanoi mourns," reported North Viet Nam's news agency, "with its theaters, cinemas and other recreation places closed or vacant. No songs, no laughter...