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More than 60 per cent of the letters, all addressed to the same post-office box, have been returned so far. "Letters are still coming in, but there is a definite trend for Johnson and against Goldwater," Stanley Milgram, assistant professor of social Psychology and director of the group, said last night...
...Stanley Milgram, in an effort to use this tragedy to advance his own political ideals, has written that since civil rights legislation was one of President Kennedy's most dear programs, we must force its enactment in order to "give meaning to his death." Such a suggestion as this directly violates a basic tenet of this country's political ethic: that legislation be enacted by reasonable process rather than by emotional reaction. The death of President Kennedy has now and will for many decades have incalculable "meaning." He did not die for and because of civil rights legislation--rather...
...this time and this place, and to imagine how he might try to express the vitality, life, and peculiar spirit of our community. Wouldn't the vision come closer to Sert's product? The less creative alternate is to rant and rage endlessly, in darkness and without understanding. Stanley Milgram Assistant Professor of Social Psychology
Deerfield was horrified. Home owners moved fast, voted overwhelming approval of a $500,000 bond issue for new city parks-laid out, as it just so happened, to include the 22 acres Milgram had bought for his development. Milgram refused to sell, so city officials applied their power of eminent domain and condemned his land. The reason for all this was clear...
...Milgram sued, claiming that the city had violated the 14th Amendment by grabbing up land meant for integrated homes. The Illinois Supreme Court heard the case, turned Milgram down, saying: "The power of eminent domain cannot be made to depend upon the peculiar social, racial, religious or political predilections of either the condemning authority or the affected property owner." Milgram's attorney appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...