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...plow through public-record tax files. Recipients of CIA-suspect largesse made an encyclopedic grab bag of organizations ranging from the now defunct Institute of International Labor Research Inc. (headed by Old Socialist Norman Thomas) to the Billy Graham Spanish-American crusade, from the North American Secretariat of Pax Romana and the John Hay Whitney Trust for Charitable Purposes to the International Food and Drink Workers Federation and the Friends of India Committee...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk at week's end gingerly held out the possibility of a brief pax in hello-on the ground and in the air-over Christmas and, seven weeks later, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Rusk pointedly withheld any promise of an extended unilateral truce. "We ought to distinguish," he added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast...
Scheer wasn't especially committed to converting Easterners. He broke appointments, miffed Kennedy Institute fellows and Mass. PAX members, and seemed most intent on finding some "decent food" so he could finish his restaurants column for Ramparts. And, in the end, he skipped out on several engagements, pronounced Harvard students "too cool" and Harvard "boring," and went drinking with a pal from Ramparts...
Peabody told the audience of 100 that neither the eight per cent primary vote of peace candidate Thomas Boylston Adams '31 or the possibility of support from Mass Pax (Massachusetts Action for Peace) had caused him to modify his endorsement of the administration's activity in Vietnam...
...with a series of workshops, directed by deposed Georgia legislator Julian Bond, which will allow workers who are usually not heard from in campaign headquarters to "voice many of their often creative ideas," Frank said. These small groups will exchange campaign and political action techniques, Mrs. Flora Donham, Pax staff worker said yesterday...