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DALE FERGUSON Harrisburg...
...Charles Manson case, in which damaging mid-trial publicity included a personal verdict of guilty by President Nixon. "Even there," notes Kaplan, "the court did not have much trouble deciding he could get a fair trial." Manson was, of course, convicted. But Philip Berrigan and the rest of the Harrisburg Seven got off, even after their alleged conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger was loudly leaked by J. Edgar Hoover. Furthermore, the inevitability of leaks and publicity in famous cases, as well as modern means of communication, has long since rendered obsolete the notion of the pristinely "ignorant" jury. Experience...
...this is fitting and proper for a housewife who helps manage a 175-acre farm in the bountiful Penns Valley not far from Harrisburg, Pa. (she also plays the organ at the Lutheran Church). But Mrs. Wise says she sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks: "My heavens, there are 2,000,000 teachers out there. Then I wonder about what 2,000,000 people could do if they had the right leadership." This, too, is fitting and proper, for Mrs. Wise has just assumed the presidency of the 1.4-mil-lion-member National Education Association...
...Wise says that her husband and three teen-age sons have always supported her endeavors. "I remember in 1968 when we led a demonstration of 20,000 teachers to the steps of the state capitol in Harrisburg for the salary appropriations. I thought I had left the kids safely at home and when we got to the steps I looked up and saw my three sitting in the tree above the Governor's head...
...Conte of Lowell House and Olympia, Wash.; Jeffrey H. Davidson of Dudley House and Cambridge; Alan Dean of Leverett House and Elmhurst, N.Y.: Ronald A. Dieck-mann of Winthrop House and Cincinnati, Ohio; E.J. Dionne of Adams House and Fall River; Donald S. Elfendein of Winthrop House and Harrisburg, Pa.; and, Jonathan G. Falk of Dunster House and Morristown...