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...baboon." Alabama's George Wallace announced that he was once more running for Governor "to get our schools back from the Federal Government," and boasted that he might not have to run against Richard Nixon in 1972, because "Nixon will give us what we want." In a memorandum to the President made public last week, Daniel Moynihan, Nixon's resident liberal in the White House, suggested that "the time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of 'benign neglect' . . . in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades...
...memorandum to be distributed this morning, the five-man committee appointed to set up the meetings said the new format was designed to insure a "more conversational and more direct" discussion than Friday's open meeting...
Derek C. Bok, dean of the Law School, and James Vorenberg '48, professor of Law and chairman of the Administrative Board, will attempt to appear at, every meeting, the memorandum said...
...poor" seems such a poignantly simple Anglo-Saxon expression. Yet previous Democratic Administrations, abetted by sociologists, made them "the disadvantaged" or "the culturally deprived." Now a memorandum in the Office of Economic Opportunity (a title that is another Thalidomide child of the language) has dictated that "the poor" shall be referred to, for precision's sake, as "lowincome individuals." As in "For ye have the low-income individuals always with...
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...