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...twice as many letters on guns in a few days as he has on Viet Nam in the past three years. The 16-month-old National Council for a Responsible Firearms Policy launched a campaign to send 10 million pro-control letters to Congress, also got 400 pickets to march around the N.R.A.'s gleaming, $3,500,000 Washington headquarters, where an armed guard is posted at the door. Thousands of brown paper bags, lettered with the words "Ban all guns" were sent to Senators. They also bore the message: "Pop one of these in the Senate. The surprise might...
Bayard Rustin, invited by Abernathy to make order of the chaos surrounding the upcoming mass march June 19, took his task seriously and responsibly, setting out to organize a peaceful demonstration and asking the support of all "Americans of good will." When he followed by issuing a manifesto of reasoned, possibly attainable goals, his measured moderation proved too much for the conflict-ridden Abernathy inner circle...
Inevitably, the blame centered on Wehner. Last March, outside the hall in Nürnberg where the Socialists were holding their convention, a mob of young party dissidents attacked Wehner, loosening a tooth and knocking off his glasses. Since then, hecklers have hounded him at nearly every speech with cries of "Labor traitor" and "Fascist." Erupting in fierce outbursts, Wehner has replied in kind, calling his detractors "Communists," and warning that their leftist attacks against the party's moderate policies would only encourage the growth of the new rightist extremists. "As you bellow into the German forest," he declared...
...whose prospects for future growth entrance many buyers. Last month Advanced Computer Techniques Corp. soared from $7.50 to $29 a share the day it was issued. Underwriters are still gasping over the performance of Educational Computer Corp., a manufacturer of teaching devices. From an offering price of $7.50 on March 7, the company's stock has shot up to $85 for a 1,033% gain...
Students of the ridiculous will be gratified to learn that the city mothers of Phoenix, Ariz., some months ago organized a Mothers' March Against Topless. That is not quite as gratifying, perhaps, as would have been the news of a Topless March Against Mothers...