Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cofounder and himself a working journalist and business executive for 20 of his 44 years. Born in New York City, Hank Luce took his B.A. at Yale in 1948, following three years in the Navy, in which he served aboard a destroyer escort in the Pacific. After becoming a reporter for the Cleveland Press, he joined TIME'S Washington bureau in 1951 as a correspondent, and two years later transferred to New York as a writer in the NATIONAL AFFAIRS section, where he wrote cover stories on House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., Wisconsin...
...total of 86 months among them, they had served in North Vietnamese prison camps; their release brought to nine the number of U.S. prisoners released by Hanoi since early 1968. The men were turned over to a four-member American peace group that had come to Hanoi to escort them home (see box). Obviously, propaganda was a major element in North Viet Nam's gesture. But whatever Hanoi's motives and however callously it toyed with the hopes harbored by the families of remaining prisoners, the release itself was a welcome occasion...
...result, Dellinger called upon Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the Paris peace talks. Lodge gave him assurances that the peace delegation would be allowed to escort the released prisoners all the way from Hanoi...
Although the vigilante impulse has been stigmatized as part of a lynch-mob mentality, there is no intrinsic reason why blacks and whites should not cooperate in escort ser vices, for instance, or in demanding both more policemen and more humane police procedures. Such cooperative ventures are still far too rare to set a pattern; if anything, the cur rent trend indicates a discouraging deterioration. But the scattered alliances formed thus far suggest exciting possibilities - and a clear challenge for unions, corporations and politicians at every level to work toward an atmosphere of tolerance based upon rational self-interest...
...last year. For sheer propaganda, however, nothing the activists are planning or doing is likely to equal the summer project of ex-S.D.S. Organizer Rennie Davis and Detroit's Linda Evans, an S.D.S. leader. They are presently in Hanoi as members of the U.S. delegation invited to escort homeward the three U.S. prisoners of war whose release was promised by the North Vietnamese early in July in observance of America's Independence...