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Starting on a serious note with what he admitted to be his major concern today--the draft--Pike reiterated his advice to students to oppose the draft if their consciences so dictated.. He asked to be included in the conspiracy indictment with Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloane Coffin...
...cherished talismans of the 1930s. The eight sculptures employ ideas Magritte previously used in his paintings, gaining solidity without loss of magic. La Folie des Grandeurs derives from a 1947 fantasy showing three women's torsos, each set implausibly one inside the other. Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch, in a grisly parody of Madame Recamier...
...tough act to follow, but USSPA managed it. As Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy was addressing the group on the final night of the conference, three New Lefters arrived on the stage and started to heckle him. When he ended, six others came trooping down the aisle bearing a coffin. They overturned it, and out poured hundreds of the Senator's campaign buttons, intended, as one perpetrator explained, to be a "witness to McCarthy's impotence." Peterson, who claimed no responsibility for the mock funeral, was filled with admiration: "McCarthy kept his cool very well...
...Resistance is the most romantic part of the anti-draft movement. It is based on a single moral act--turning in your registration card--and a simple political philosophy, "If enough people do it, we have to win." With its adult support group (Coffin and Spock are among the leaders), the Resistance aims its straightforward acts of courage toward a moral confrontation with the United States Government. The plan was that thousands of resisters would be arrested for not carrying their draft cards. The hope was that the arrests would create national indignation...
...discussing the Spock-Coffin indictment in your article about conspiracy you quoted me as saying that the Government "would like to paint the picture of a widespread agreement, and that may be a realistic portrayal of the situation." You omitted the word "not," thereby altering significantly the thrust of my statement. What I said was ". . . and that may not be a realistic portrayal of the situation...