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Snow was just beginning to fall around 8 a. m. when the marshal allowed the first thirty-five people to enter the lobby of the building. We were again seated on the floor-but at least this time we were warm...
When David Earl Gutknecht laid his draft card at the feet of a federal marshal in Minneapolis during a Viet Nam War protest in 1967, Selective Service Director Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey was not amused. After similar acts of defiance by other potential draftees, Hershey sent a memorandum encouraging local draft boards to discipline the protesters by accelerating their inductions as rapidly as Selective Service regulations would permit. Thereupon Gutknecht's draft board declared him "delinquent";* six days later he was jumped ahead of nondelinquent registrants and ordered drafted. He refused to submit and was convicted and sentenced...
Many of the 90 guests who gathered in Leonard Bernstein's fashionable Park Avenue apartment had the iridescence of Beautiful People. They came not to gabble, not to glitter, but to listen. Settling down on folding chairs, they attended the guest of honor: Donald Cox, field marshal of the Black Panther Party...
...York Times's Charlotte Curtis, whose typewriter can deliver deft malice, was also in the crowd. Next morning she published some ludicrous exchanges-which Bernstein denies-between the field marshal of the pig-baiters and the aesthetic doge of the Upper East Side...
According to University Marshal William G. Anderson, the Cliffies will join in the Commencement Procession from the Old Yard to the Tercentenary Theatre, and Radcliffe class officers and candidates for highest honors will join the leaders of the Harvard class who "draw near" when the baccalaureate degrees are conferred...