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Tuesday, November 22 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). 'Inside Red China," narrated by Marvin Kalb. Films taken last spring by a West German crew peer inside homes, a steel mill and a university, also show life in a farm commune and the cities of Shanghai, Peking and Wuhan. Other films document the recent upheavals of the Red Guards...
Sitting in Dean Watson's office less than an hour after the last students left Mill St., Watson and Dean Monro deplored the afternoon's events. Over and over they emphasized that this demonstration had exceeded the bounds of normal, permissible, and predictable behavior of Harvard students -- the two men simply hadn't expected it. Neither had been at the scene, and as they received more and more information, they became increasingly offended. Monro said initially that the matter would not go before the Administrative Board, because the College disliked judging any sort of political protest. The next day, having...
...feelings may have been singular only in their intensity. Other people were--or would be--thinking similar thoughts about the afternoon's events. For the meeting of McNamara and his critics on Mill St. was not an ordinary occurrence for Harvard. It resembled no other political protest in the College's recent history. Previous demonstrations had been mild in comparison. The most memorable, perhaps, was George Wallace's visit to Cambridge in the fall of 1963. It provoked a large demonstration on Cambridge Common and picketing around Sanders Theatre. All that happened then, however, was that someone...
...reception that Secretary McNamara got on Mill Street last Monday was distasteful. It was no "confrontation" between students and policy-maker; it was a futile, embarrasing shouting match...
...then, was unjust. The ensuing demonstration turned into something far more unruly than even it had planned. But the crowd of 800 students that jammed onto Mill St. was not a mob, even though the television reports and the wire service stories made it seem that way. Students were excited, and many of them were angry at each other. Yet they were never out of control. The Secretary was not in physical danger. He could have exchanged quips with the hecklers for as long as he wanted. No one was hurt. No one was arrested. And the little violence that...