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...with the anarchical slogans of "Burn, baby, burn!" and "Tear down the courthouses," there is a calculated conviction that violence is above all else a language, and that this language, through fear, will persuade white society to give things to the Negro that it would not otherwise give. Says Lester Mc-Kinney, Washington head of S.N.C.C.: "In the minds of the people, history has proved that any meaningful social change has come through a bloody revolution." Many Negro leaders point to the violent tactics of the labor movement in gaining its ends. Even Negro Sociologist Kenneth Clark, no advocate...
...meeting of 17 of the nation's 25 Democratic Governors a fortnight ago in St. Louis, Johnson heard assurances of party harmony and political support in '68. "What they said was music to my ears," he declared. Of the 17 Governors, only Georgia's Lester Maddox and Louisiana's John J. McKeithen declined to pledge their support for next year. The others were clearly convinced that Johnson is trying to do something about their problems; they like his assignment of Florida's former Governor Farris Bryant to formulate ways of improving federal-state relations...
Helped by the New York Civil Liberties Union, she sued to reverse the decision, and Queens Supreme Court Justice Lester Holtzman ruled that the state's department of education had denied Marsha due process of law. Emphasizing the gravity of sanctions imposed on a Regents cheater, Judge Holtzman held that the education department should have held a hearing "at which she might defend herself with the assistance of counsel...
...Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
...David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy; Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government; John Rawls, professor of Philosophy; Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics, Charles Fried, professor of Law; Stephen A. Marglin '59, assistant professor of Economics and coorganizer of the group; Gerald D. Rosenthal, assistant professor of Economics; and Lester E. Thurow, assistant professor of Economics...