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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President's three-day swing through South VietNam, a tour of syntax soldiering that found Humphrey at his ebullient best. Traveling by armed Huey helicopter, C-118 transport, Jeep, limousine and shanks' mare, the Vice President-who bore the code name Northwest-coursed from the Delta to the Demilitarized Zone on a threefold mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Northwest's Passage | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...American stamp was ev ident wherever the Vice President went. Accompanied by a horde of Secret Service men and military police ("They think I have a machine that spits M.P.s," groused one provost marshal), he cop-tered to the U.S.S. Benewah, flagship of River Flotilla 1 anchored off the Delta, to pass out Purple Hearts and news from home. "Who won the Minne sota-Michigan game?" asked a Minnesota sailor. "We took them 20 to 15," grinned Old Gopher Humphrey. Jetting up to Phu Bai, a small Marine outpost near the embattled DMZ, he boarded a transport plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Northwest's Passage | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...Yale Daily News revealed last week that DKE, a fraternity, used a red hot iron to "brand" its new members during the club's initiation rites. The brand burned a one-half inch delta, the symbol of DKE, into each new member's back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Frat Leaves Mark | 11/7/1967 | See Source »

More than half of the students, who attend law schools from the University of Washington in Seattle, to Emory College in Atlanta, Ga., are Negro. "We were surprised and delighted," said Charles Horowitz, a civil rights worker in the National Council of Church's Delta Ministry. "At last blacks are showing blacks...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: 8 Law Students Advise Negroes In Miss. Voting | 11/4/1967 | See Source »

...auditorium of the Delta Ministry's Mount Beulah headquarters, Mississippi political workers stressed that the students were here only as technical advisers on legal matters. "Remember, you cannot change our world in four days. That's not your job," said James Lewis, of the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: 8 Law Students Advise Negroes In Miss. Voting | 11/4/1967 | See Source »

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