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Petitions backing U.S. policy are becoming commonplace on campuses. Students at Michigan State gathered 15,897 signatures, at Minnesota 9,000, at Southern Illinois University more than 4,500, at University of Texas near ly 4,000 in just three days, at St. Louis University 2,453, at Stanford 2,300, at Yale 1,000. Contributing 40? each, 1,002 students at Princeton sent a $393* telegram to General William Westmoreland's headquarters in Saigon to state their appreciation of "the sacrifices" U.S. troops are making...
...spot arrests for any federal felony or misdemeanor committed in their presence. Though jury discrimination in all American courts has been a federal crime since 1875 (Title 18, Section 243), the Justice Department has prosecuted no one for the practice in this century. When an all-white jury recent ly acquitted Tom Coleman for killing a civil rights worker in Hayneville, Ala., Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach could only swallow hard and say: "This is the price you have to pay for the jury system, and I don't think it is too high a price to pay. The situation...
Tales of Temper. It all began when Olin Mathieson, Reynolds Metals and Kaiser Aluminum announced plans to raise prices of primary aluminum about 2%, from 241? to 250 per Ib. Two days later, the Texas White House quiet ly posted a notice that White House Special Assistant Joe Califano would meet with three Cabinet secretaries (Defense's Robert McNamara, Treas ury's Henry Fowler, Commerce's John Connor) to consider ways of selling part of the Government's huge aluminum stockpile. Though the notice said nothing about prices, the New York Times, acting on information from...
Soprano Phyllis Curtin makes the same point in terms of everyday life by noting that "children sing when they really mean it: 'You're a dirty bul-ly.' " She even illustrates music's power by citing, "Double your pleasure / Double your fun, / With Doublemint, Doublemint, / Doublemint...
Intellectuals in the West made wide ly publicized protests, and eight months later Tarsis was released. He proceeded promptly to make the most of his martyrdom by writing a full report on his life in the political loony bin. Published last spring in Britain, Ward 7 was analyzed by the Western press with melancholy fascination as an up-to-date treatise on thought control in the Soviet Union (TIME, May 21). Published this week in the U.S., the book may surprise the reader who expects nothing more than a political document-it is also a work of art. Admittedly...