Word: ferber
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About 2000 people are expected to turn up, according to Michael K. Ferber, a graduate student in English and one of the protest's organizers...
During Monday's service, draft resistors will be called on to hand in their cards at the altar to members of the clergy. Those who wish to burn their cards may do so with an altar candle, Ferber said. Otherwise, the cards will be taken to Washington where Dr. Benjamin Spock and Resistance members will hand the cards to the Justice Department. The cards will be handed in on Friday, Oct. 20, with an expected 2000 from around the nation...
Both the clergy members who receive the draft cards during the services on Monday and the people who hand the cards to the Justice Department are according to Ferber subject to arrest...
...This is going well beyond the-individual romantic gesture of the past few years," Ferber said before a small meeting of draft resistors last night. "We've been told by government prosecuting attorney through mutual contacts that the Government doesn't have enough facilities to prosecute the several hundred guys now who might have been brought in for Selective Service law violation, much less the 15 to 20,000 men we hope to have by next spring...
Pearl Buck, 74, is the most durable of a class of doughty women writers-also including Edna Ferber and Faith Baldwin-who flourished in the '20s and '30s, weathered the '40s, and have been losing much of their audience ever since. They appealed to women who had got the vote and, later, the household appliances that set them free to ponder Womanhood. What they wanted to hear was how tough it all had been, and no one told them more relentlessly than Author Buck, who, in her 32 novels and obsessive memoir writing, has ennobled the distaff...