Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAME DAY that President Nixon urged the nation to "stand fast" on Vietnam, the Massachusetts Sixth District sent Michael J. Harrington, '58 to Congress. The election was regarded by many as a referendum on Vietnam. Political commentators pointed out that it marked the fourth defeat suffered by Republicans since January in special Congressional races...
Senior Democrats throughout the nation began to patronize the Harrington campaign. Humphrey came, the one big gesture to the moderate center; so did Muskie and McGovern. Eugene McCarthy sent his regards, and Fred Harris appeared on election night in time to make his own victory statement. Edward Kennedy, though, unlike homestaters Brooke and Sargent, could do little to help his favorite in the race...
...extraordinary nature of the war makes it an issue on which the Faculty should take an official stand. Mendelsohn and other speakers described the effects of the war on the nation and on Harvard. Marc Roberts '64, assistant professor of Economics, said that "the Faculty must stand for some things." If the war does not present "sufficient moral issues to prompt our action, then such moral issues do not exist." he said...
...formal Faculty vote would be the most effective way to make anti-war sentiment felt. Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee professor of Economics, said that there was a "terrible difference between laid special emphasis on the unique nation." Both would "do the same thing, but speaking as a Faculty or as a convoca-the second would be much weaker than the first...
...Audie Murphy, who was one of only two men in the history of the nation to receive every decoration awarded for valor in combat. He entered World War II as a private, but emerged as a 1st Lieutenant, and was credited with killing, wounding, or capturing as many as 240 Germans throughout North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. He was persuaded to go to Hollywood, and starred in "To Hell and Back," the story of his own life and the only case of an actor portraying himself...