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...Wildest. Unlike many of his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was neither an outspoken critic nor an eloquent defender of Viet Nam policy until January 1966. Then he joined 14 other Senators in an appeal to the President to continue a pause in bombing raids against the North. Four days later, Johnson ended the 37-day pause, and by mid-1966 McCarthy had become an unremitting opponent...
...other groups, Joe's ideas are as outspoken as his political views. "The Beach Boys," he said, "are like a bunch of fraternity brothers who took LSD and have really gone beserk. Some of their effects are nice, but their lyrics..."--and a grin spread over his face...
...felt that the university was dragging its feet on the product, Columbia backed out of the deal. The university said that it had made "a well-intentioned mistake in entering a highly controversial and competitive commercial field." It had indeed, suggested Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. The outspoken tobacco industry foe charged that Strickman's secret polymer device was "not as efficient" as "some filters now in production...
Swarowsky is scarcely more lovable afterhours. Sometimes he stalks the streets of Vienna, scowling and conducting to himself to avoid greeting passersby. He admits to a great "mania to convince everybody about everything," and many of his outspoken opinions are less than gracious. His hottest public feud is with gifted Opera Conductor Karl Böhm, who, he thinks, has an "impossible" technique and is too lax with singers. Partly because of these traits, partly because of the didacticism of his approach, Swarowsky has never made great headway as a practicing conductor. It is only when he conducts his classes...
Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, has been somewhat more outspoken. At a recent meeting of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, he said "I don't think Hershey's memorandum is illegal or immoral, and I don't think the war in Vietnam is illegal or immoral...