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...contrast, the Democrats ran notably dull campaigns in New York, Illinois, Michigan and California, committed a few grievous gaffes along the way. None was worse than a scene in the 30-minute campaign film in which Pat Brown was shown telling a little Negro girl: "I'm running against an actor ?and remember this: You know who shot Abraham Lincoln...
...Grievous Deception. In Congress, where roughly one-fifth of the House and one-third of the Senate remain opposed to the war, most of the critics feel that their efforts have been futile, and have fallen silent. The most articulate of the antiwar Senators, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, concedes that the voices of dissent have not generated much volume. Last week he warned Moscow, Peking and Hanoi that they would be "grievously deceiving themselves if they underestimated the militant spirit" in the U.S. "I don't believe the President is isolated," said Fulbright. "The Congress...
...Those at Amherst and New York University who walked out on Secretary McNamara [June 17] displayed a grievous lack of good taste, good manners and good breeding. Of course, all of us who have lived through college know that college students are slightly crazy. But one would think the professors would have prevented this display of provincialism...
...Even among peoples normally friendly to us, our motives are widely misinterpreted. The spectacle of Americans inflicting grievous injury on the lives of a poor and helpless people of different race and color produces reactions among millions of people throughout the world profoundly detrimental to [our] image...
...formes General James M. Gavin in this month's issue of Harper's seems the most realistic solution to that problem. Walter Lippman, who has favored this strategy for many months, calls it: "the best of a bad business, not glorious, but the least costly way of repairing the grievous mistakes of the past...