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...together a panel of scientists and science-fiction writers including Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and John Pierce, 3) planned a four-part essay on movie scifi, featuring Flash Gordon and the Clay People, plus clips from Destination Moon and 2001: A Space Odyssey and 4) taped James Dickey reading one of his space poems...
Presentations of honorary degrees are generally solemn affairs, but retiring Dartmouth President John Sloan Dickey put some kick in his kudos for Yale's President Kingman Brewster. Said Dickey, bestowing the LL.D.: "Never one to do things the easy way, you prepared for your avocation as a patrician sailor by being the eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant. As a Yale man, you prepared for the law by going to Harvard, then taught at Harvard Law School in preparation for the Yale presidency. As the editor of the Yale Daily News, you campaigned against the dress of Vassar...
Instead of adopting fluster or bluster, Dartmouth's President John Sloan Dickey coolly warned that he would seek a court injunction and summon police if any buildings were seized by students. Both sides thus knew precisely where events were taking them, in sharp contrast to recent campus collisions across the country...
Ancient Aberration. When 100 radicals seized the Dartmouth administration building, Dickey & Co. went to work. Armed with an injunction, the local sheriff read it over a bullhorn and ordered the invaders to leave. Two hours later, a deputy warned the occupiers that they were liable for contempt of court. Meantime, New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson, a Dartmouth alumnus and trustee, mustered a force of state troopers and personally directed them to shun violence...
...sentenced to 30 days in jail. It was the harshest mass punishment of student protesters so far. It was also a proud experience for the demonstrators, who willingly paid the price for what they considered an antiwar stand. Dartmouth itself emerged with equal integrity. "My concern," says President Dickey, "is that youth's perennial commitment to a better human future should not today be betrayed by the most ancient aberration of hard-pressed humanity-the notion that anything goes in having your...