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...Senators James Eastland and John Stennis to the White House for breakfast. He staged a ceremony for Southern Senators and Congressmen as he signed a $100 million appropriation for Mississippi River flood-control projects. He addressed a Republican congressional dinner and hosted a farewell gathering for his departed aide Melvin Laird...
Using material from the black poets and playwrights like Melvin Van Peebles and Ed Bullins, the Bedford group flourished where other groups had failed because, says Steward, "they used to visit with plays that just didn't relate. The great majority of prisoners are black and Puerto Rican ghetto citizens-they want a play about what they left and what they are going back...
...Brigade has been publicizing Ford's visit at several Boston schools, including Boston University. In past protests, the Brigade has gone beyond picketing--it led the trashing of the Center for International Affairs here in the spring of 1972, and more recently threw eggs at former secretary of defense Melvin R. Laird when he spoke in Providence, R.I., in January...
...Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ur-father of the new linguistics, who spoke best in aphorisms, put it thus: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." One's words, for better and for worse, define one's reality, and what you say is what you get. "Melvin Maddocks...
...South Vietnamese, however, the future is likely to be as grim as the past. Last week former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird glumly predicted: 'The war in Southeast Asia will go on for perhaps another 20 years. It has gone on for 30 years already...