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Student groups at Harvard have been actively compaigning for the mock election and plan to distribute pamphlets outside the polls today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Will Vote Today In 'Time' Campaign Poll | 4/24/1968 | See Source »

Harvard students will vote today in a mock bipartisan presidential election sponsored by Time magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Will Vote Today In 'Time' Campaign Poll | 4/24/1968 | See Source »

...same day, Premier Lynden O. Pindling, 38, strolled into a new suburban school that his government had built on neighboring Andros Island, and cast his vote. "I think a win is sure," he said as he popped into his car. Then he popped back out again and, in mock alarm, asked: "Don't you think so?" The crowd laughed and cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bahamas: All the Way | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

When citizenship time comes, Kaplan practices for the judge's (Rufus Smith) questions. Asked to recite the Preamble to the Constitution, the marvelously assured Kaplan rattles off the Boy Scout oath. "That isn't in the Constitution," he is told. His face momentarily clouded in mock chagrin, Kaplan replies, "It isn't? Well, it should be." Saturated with Tom Bosley's warm humanity and lit with his winning smile, Kaplan seems to exemplify what F. Scott Fitzgerald once defined as the essence of America-"a willingness of the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...leader, Keith Lampe, 36, in a rare Yippie understatement. Already Yippies have demonstrated their distaste for air pollution by invading the Manhattan offices of Con Ed to deposit black chrysanthemums with secretaries, hurl soot at executives and detonate smoke bombs. They parodied the police by staging their own mock predawn narcotics raid at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. Next month Yippies from coast to coast are planning an Indian ghost dance* against American foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Politics of YIP | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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