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Richard A. Lester, associate dean of the school, feels that too many students mistakenly imagine an instant source of government contacts. They come to Princeton, Lester says, hoping to become intimate with scads of big wheels from Washington; instead they run into academic types telling them how to play at policymaking, and this turns them...
Licht, had proposed active opposition to Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, advocate of de facto segregation in the Boston schools, in School Committee elections this fall. In addition he had described an Executive Council disagreement over the question of inviting Georgia's segregationist governor Lester Maddox to speak to the club...
Cold Party. During his Senate campaign, Brooke responded to the exaggerated threat of white backlash by taking the unusual step?for him?of raising the racial issue. He condemned both Stokely Carmichael and Georgia's Lester Maddox as "extremists of black power and white power." Brooke swamped Chub Peabody by 1,213,473 to 744,761 votes and took the Senate seat occupied for 22 years by Brahmin Leverett Saltonstall...
...next morning to a visiting delegation of Junior Chamber of Commerce officials. After attending the annual presidential prayer breakfast, at which he confessed that "none of us can ever be certain that we are right," Johnson found time for his first meeting with Georgia's Democratic Governor Lester Maddox, who as a segregationist restaurateur had picketed the White House in 1965. Allowed Maddox after his ten-minute private chat with L.B.J.: "The country is big enough...
Viable Sperm. Protestant theologians, even as they continue to affirm the essential sacredness of life, argue that the inflexible Catholic opposition is bad morality based on bad biology. Says Episcopal Priest Lester Kinsolving of San Francisco: "The contention that the fetus, being viable, is to be regarded as a human being is not only specious but begs the consideration that the sperm is also viable." Not even the most austere Catholic moralist, he points out, suggests that the loss of semen through nocturnal emission represents the taking of life. German Protestant Theologian Joachim Beckmann concedes that the embryo is alive...