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...Afro-American history class I have learned what really took place in this democratic U.S. 100 years ago that I was not taught in high school or college. While the people of this country are paying homage to such men as Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry, they would do well to honor Stevens, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison and Denmark Vesey. The greatest personal commitment one can make to himself today is "Learn, Baby, Learn...
...public happiness"-and maintained that the phrase had been written by a bona fide founding father, no less. Though the Library of Congress has not been able to trace the quote, a Humphrey aide said that he thought John Adams had put the words in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. His source: Gene McCarthy, who once used the phrase in his own speeches...
...considering poverty and other problems, the U.S. "is not a joyous and happy country." Humphrey seemed to get a slightly warmer reception than Kennedy, but the U.A.W. is officially remaining neutral. At week's end in Omaha, Humphrey and Kennedy again shared an audience-Democratic notables at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner-and again McCarthy was elsewhere. It seemed to be an omen of the way the preconvention campaign would develop in the next three months...
Ohio, with 115 votes, is another key state and, as Humphrey sat down to a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the vibrations were encouraging. Earlier, Senator Stephen Young, running in this week's primary as a favorite son, had withdrawn his endorsement of Robert Kennedy. Young urged neutrality until the convention, but a large majority of the delegates are now counted as favorable to Humphrey...
Monday's CRIMSON mistakenly reported the fifth member of the Columbia committee to be Jefferson Barnes. He is, in fact, Jefferson Barnes Fordham, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Law School...