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...three and their families were driven to Portsmouth Naval Hospital for private reunions, complete with champagne, that lasted nearly until dawn. Mulligan, gone for more than six years, called photographers to take pictures of him with his six sons, some of them sporting long hair. Later, his wife reported: "His biggest shock is the way society as a whole has changed. The mood of the country has changed. Also the Catholic Church. It's like beginning to live all over again." Mrs. Galanti said that her husband wanted to hear about the moon shots, about President Nixon...
...Administration's decision to use police to clear University Hall charged that the action resembled the use of storm troopers, Ford responded, "Some now insist that 'storm troopers entered University Hall.' This is true, but they entered it at noon on Wednesday [the time of the occupation], not dawn of Thursday [the time of the bust...
COLONEL DEAN MACHO, veteran Marine flyer and crew-cut C.O. of Air Group 12 greeted the final day of the war with a farewell bombing sortie over the Mekong Delta. Whistling off into the hot pink dawn with three other A-4 Skyhawks, Macho made radio contact with a Vietnamese forward air controller (F.A.C.); he was promptly directed in pidgin English to an enemy target. Except for the language problem, it was business as usual. "At one point I asked the F.A.C. whether the target was east, west, north or south of some smoke rising from the ground," Macho recounted...
...half years, and take a hard look at the world about us. It is not difficult to recall the first semester the Class of 1973 spent at Harvard, though often it seems a lifetime ago. It was the fall after University Hall had been cleared in a bloody pre-dawn raid which most of us had read about, but few of us understood. Parents were having second thoughts about sending their sons and daughters to a hotbed of radicalism, Fair Harvard or not. I remember there was an electricity in the air that fall, a feeling such as most...
...noon on April 10, they did so, ejecting the deans in University Hall, and renaming the building "Che Guevara Hall". The crowds of students who gathered outside overwhelmingly opposed the occupation: there was talk of football players and other able-bodied students coming to remove the occupiers. Then, at dawn the next day, with no advance warning to the Faculty or the students. President Pusey ordered in the police. By the hundreds came police arrayed in combat gear and ready for violent action. At dawn, they marched in and cleared the building with night sticks and buttering ranis. Quite...