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Gibes & Guards. The four-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery had itself been an experience, not an excitement. It started on the after noon of Sunday, March 21, with some 3,400 marchers led by two Nobel Peace prizewinners-the Rev. Martin Luther King and Ralph Bunche, now U.N. Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs. In the procession, whites and Negroes, clergymen and beatniks, old and young, walked side by side. There was a blind man from Atlanta on the arm of his 64-year-old mother. There was a one-legged man from Michigan swinging along...
...Same Goal. The mating of artist and academe may never be perfect. Cornell recently celebrated its centennial with a four-day exploration of "The Universities and the Arts" at Lincoln Center in which Cornell President James A. Perkins warned that the artist on campus must shake off his tendency to dismiss the faculty and student amateurs as "part of an offensive mass culture." He must also face the fact that the university's reliance "on the written word and the verbal tradition" is not always compatible with his own work "in the nonverbal media of sound, color, shape, movement...
...four-day pilgrimage climaxes a drive to register Alabama Negroes which was launched from Selma nearly ten weeks ago by King. King has estimated that the march cost his organization about $50,000. Funds come from contributions. King's march into Montgomery came nearly ten years after he began his civil rights crusade with a bus boycott there...
...attend the national meets in years like this one when they have eben held out West. Alumni funds suffice to buy equipment for the Nordic events, but individual members are still foting the bill for boots, and Alpine skis. Team members and coaches supply the transportation on the long four-day weekends north to the carnivals. Coach Charles Gibson has his expenses paid by the University, but receives no salary...
These and other tips from the top were given at a Washington seminar last week for some 500 Young Republicans. Opening the four-day "leadership training" conference was outgoing Republican National Chairman Dean Burch, who advised the heavily pro-Goldwater audience: "Let's not be so enthralled with further fratricide that we can't elect men in 1966. And let's stop castigating and start cultivating the press. We Republicans are not sick, we're not dead, we're not dying, and we're not ready for the ashcan of history...