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...repeatedly disrupted by catcalls; one young scientist even hurled a tomato at the Minnesota Senator (the missile missed). Muttered the tomato thrower as he was led off by police: "I could have hit him between the eyes if I wanted to." In a counterprotest, former Presidential Aide Daniel Moynihan, now a professor at Harvard and a newly elected A.A.A.S. vice president, angrily canceled his own planned speech (title: "Waste Disposal in an Age of Rubbish") and indignantly told a press conference: "I'm a political scientist and I smell fascism...
Some A.A.A.S. leaders sympathized so strongly with the dissenters that they went out of their way to praise the petulant protests. Environmentalist Barry Commoner, who is a member of the association's board of directors, rebuked Moynihan for his walkout and said that the protests against Humphrey may well have stiffened the Senator's disapproval of U.S. policies in Southeast Asia, which Commoner also has heartily denounced. Added retiring A.A.A.S. President Athelstan Spilhaus: "If there weren't these disruptions, it would mean that these meetings were not significant...
...elegant. There is a large anteroom with a conference table. One wall is decorated with campaign cartoons. His inner sanctuary has a comfortable warmth. On the President's desk is a copy of Herman Wouk's new novel The Winds of War, a gift from the author. "Pat Moynihan and Bill Safire pick books for me. In the reading field I am basically a history buff?history and biography. If I pick out anything to reread, such as Sandburg's Lincoln, I mark pages I like. It's poetry, of course...
...same for Douglas Dillon; A great big grant for Victor Jones, And for the MCZ, some bones; An insect necktie for Williams, Carroll For Douglas Bryant, a Widener Carrel. And we'll relive the Battle of the Boyne again Led by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. And could we forget, at this gladsome Yule Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule? Courteousely our hats we'll doff, then. For Kenneth and for Stanley Hoffmann. Free, Moira, yes. And flee, Thanatos! While we drink to James Yannatos. A nice new Bible would be For Peter and Charles P. Price, loast Muhammed Ali, and his awesome fight...
...education had failed to remove the "achievement gap" because I.Q. is predominantly inherited. Such views taken out of context hardly seem worth criticizing, but when placed within the framework of today's politically reactionary climate, they become ideological justifications for such policies as the "benign neglect" advocated by Daniel Moynihan...