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...about the war, seem weary of rehashing all the old arguments, and the issue is losing its emotional kick. Frustrated by the difficulty of "escalating protest," a Yale senior sighs: "This Government is committed to this madness, so what can you do?" The University of Wisconsin still manages to muster some 400 students for antiwar rallies, but most protests elsewhere take the forlorn form of silent vigils...
Agnew has yet to muster enough steam to beat a 3-to-l Democratic registration among the state's 900,000 voters. In the topsy-turvy campaign, Republican Agnew has the support of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and even of the Baltimore chapter of A.D.A. Mahoney has shown notable strength among blue-collar workers in Baltimore and low-income homeowners in the suburbs. To beat him, Negro leaders in Baltimore would have to deliver almost all of their 140,000 votes for Agnew...
...full economic integration and social equality of different races, the Negro's choices are widening with fair rapidity. The U.S. has certainly come an incredibly long way since Abraham Lincoln, shortly before the end of the Civil War, asked his logistics experts to determine whether the U.S. could muster enough transportation to export the Negroes-only to be told that Negro babies were being born faster than all the nation's ships could carry them from the country...
...pickets his appearance would attract. Cornell Sophomore Richard Rusk sent the Sun a sonly note of his own. "I can assure you that the reasons for his cancellation are legitimate," wrote Richard. "Being on more intimate terms with Mr. Rusk, I think it is possible that the Secretary might muster up his courage and run the gauntlet of Cornell's worst at some future date...
What sets the Committee off is not easily discovered. Madame Nhu, Floyd McKissick, and a host of other controversial speakers have passed muster with the Committee. But in 1959 the group balked at Fidel Castro, and in 1963 a few members suggested informally that Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi should speak elsewhere (he did). Last week, the Committee vetoed a speech by Stokely Carmichael...