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...crowded marketplace and near Saigon University, rifle-toting combat police in camouflage uniforms arrested all youths of high school and college age in sight and hauled them off to detention camps on the outskirts. Throughout the city, blue-uniformed members of Nhu's Republican Youth Organization made door-to-door calls, warning against public criticism of the government on pain of arrest. Schools were closed until further notice, and scheduled elections for the normally rubberstamp, 123-member National Assembly were postponed...
...result in Reischauer's opinion is that U.S. students are actually more active politically, and in a healthier way, than are Japanese students. It almost invariably comes as a shock to Japanese students, he said, to learn that their American counterparts participate in campaigning, door-to-door canvassing...
Jehovah's Witnesses share a lot of characteristics with Boy Scouts. They are trustworthy, helpful, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent-and (to many outsiders) confounded nuisances. They are conspicuously meek and devout in their big Yankee Stadium meetings, but can be tiresomely importunate in their door-to-door convert hunts and their litigious defenses of their "God-given right" not to vote, bear arms or salute flags...
...total of almost $50,000 will be solicited in the next month in door-to-door campaigns and a button-selling drive. Students will be utilized in this effort and also to man the headquarters set-up in the ground floor of the building housing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...talk to adult groups in churches we realize that they are unable to see the kind of world in which their children could live. Just to explain to local Negroes what we are trying to do, we have had to organize 8 or 9 committees who will go door-to-door in their districts explaining the purpose of a selective buying campaign; we have had to stage weekly meetings, where we talk to church congregations, in most of the district; and we have had to distribute explanatory literature each week through all the local churches. These people have...