Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easier to bear. Lyndon Johnson, who has more than once brooded late into the night with friends on the subject of violence, seemed shaken and visibly disturbed by the shooting in Los Angeles. He did what he thought had to be done. He promised the stricken family any help that the Government could provide, appointed a commission to study the causes of violence, and called, in the most vigorous language at his command, for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns-a trade, as he observed, that makes instruments of death as readily purchasable as baskets of fruit...
...most of his colleagues, assembled a better staff, sensed more deeply the nation's abiding problems. He knew that he was the only man in the country, save perhaps the President, who could make headlines with almost anything he said-and knew also that this did not always help him. He publicly questioned the war long before it became popular to do so, spoke in favor of the poor in affluent areas where it was clearly not to his advantage, and defended law and order in the ghettos, where such a statement by any other white man would have...
...found ghetto residents more enlightening Congressional witnesses than labor racketeers. Sometime in the decade before his death, Bob Kennedy put the Red threat and the New York Daily News headlines in the back of his mind, took a long look at the American people and decided the needed help. He may not have lived long enough to transmit to his countrymen the compassion and concern he discovered in himself. Maybe that's why Yenan looks attractive.C...
...feet; Roy Shaw and Jim Baker made several valiant but futile runs at the four minute mile; Frank Haggerty established himself as one of the nation's best hurdlers before a freak accident cut short his senior season. More than anything else Harvard lacked experience, but there may be help from the freshmen and there is a transfer student from Northeastern who is expected to provide some 9.7 speed...
...students disliked his unemotional approach, but as Bruce Fireman '70, a follower of SDS, said, "I don't want any anti-war candidate to do badly; a Johnson victory would be interpreted as support for the war. . . . He [McCarthy] is the only candidate we've got, we ought to help...