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Only once last week, in an impromptu departure from his 13-page single-spaced text, did Johnson mention the Great Society. He invoked God just once and evoked youthful memories of poverty and the Pedernales not at all. What he did present to the 90th Congress-and a prime-hour TV audience estimated at 65 million-was a pragmatic, sometimes prosaic outline of legislative aims tempered both to the conservative climate of Capitol Hill and the economic realities of a society that is inextricably involved in a costly war abroad while deeply committed to social reform at home...
...clubs," the chairman of the Daily Princetonian told me last week. And nearly everyone else at Princeton agreed. In fact, they were indignant that, I should even ask such a question. The year of the anti-Semitism scandal at Princeton was 1958, when the wire services made it front page news in every paper in the country. But that is all over now. At least it is all over according to club rhetoric...
Nobody thought of activism or picketing or confrontation. What the ten-man committee wanted was rational discussion of issues in a calm, gentlemanly way. In November they issued a 16-page pamphlet entitled "Report on Bicker and Proposals for Change." It outlined their ideas for changing Bicker and told why they wanted it changed. It influenced a lot of people. The committee took a poll and found that a little less than 40 per cent of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes agreed with their proposal...
Approximately 2000 faculty members from more than 80 colleges and universities signed a full page advertisement in yesterday's New York Times, reading: "Mr. President, Stop the Bombing...
McIntosh and the students he represents hope that the non-student issue, to which the local papers devote a disproportionate amount of attention, will disappear once students are really given some voice in policy-making. With insight that most adult Califorians lack, Page vanLobensenls, another ASUC officer, tried to explain to newsmen why most striking students seemed so unconcerned about the fates of the non-students who led them...