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Marigolds & Mischief. Main targets of last week's demos were federal induction centers. In San Francisco, a crowd of 800, ranging from hippies and clerics to an actively nursing mother gathered in a nippy Bay wind for an "offertory" service. Only 87 filed forward to place their draft cards in a silver bowl for mailing to Washington...
Cincinnati's antiwarriors conducted their draft drama with a bit more panache. Sporting marigolds and sparking mischief, a group of 50-mostly students from nearby Antioch College-gathered in front of the main post office to protest the impending induction of James R. Wessner, 22, grandson-in-law of Cleveland Industrialist and Russophile Cyrus Eaton. Wessner was clad in a black Halloween "death" costume and toted a scythe-a grim tableau that found an almost exact duplicate in Des Moines. Nine young men turned in their draft cards in Cincinnati, after dipping them in a cup full of blood...
...surrounded the Whitehall Street induction center near city hall, and surged through the rest of Manhattan playing antidraft tag with twice as many cops for four straight days. Greeted by freezing temperatures and the ominous rattle of police billies on the barricades, the demonstrators never managed to reach the main door of the center. Police allowed Dr. Benjamin Spock, Poet Allen Ginsberg and Author Susan Sontag, among others, to sit-in symbolically on the cold stone steps, then just as symbolically arrested them...
When the Computer Center was first built, in 1946-47, there was considerable interest in the design of computers. Now, says Dix, "we're only interested in using them." Software--specialized programs--has replaced hardware--computers--as the Center's main area of innovation...
...sees another obstacle to expanded computer use at Harvard--the "have" school's difficulty getting Federal funds. Mosteller attended a computer conference this weekend at the University of Maryland, where the main concern was the setting up of conferences to help specifically small schools gain access to computer networks...