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Officials planning the visit predicted yesterday that it will be without incident, although as many as 200 students from Harvard, Radcliffe, Brandeis, B.U., and M.I.T. are expected to picket her speech...
John Ehrenreich '64, secretary of Toosin, said yesterday that the purpose of the picket demonstration outside Rindge Tech is not to protest Mme. Nhu's right to speak, but to criticize United States policy in Vietnam. Tocsin last week adopted a resolution calling for a cease fire in the embattled Asian country, followed by the withdrawal of all American troops in Vietnam and internationally supervised elections in the country...
...hard-cash collections to help rebuild the bombed Baptist church. The reaction demonstrated what is best about religion's responsibilities toward mending the nation's racial division: white ministers and priests are everywhere waking up to the need to help Negroes through secular action -fund drives, picket lines, finding jobs, breaking down housing segregation. But at the same time, the hatred that brought on the bombing showed what clergymen confess to be the worst in their role: their inability to stand in pulpits and to preach Acts 17:26 (God "hath made of one blood...
Hundreds of clergymen took part in the August civil rights march on Washington, including two Roman Catholic archbishops, at least ten Episcopal bishops, about 50 rabbis. So far in 1963, more than 200 clergymen have been arrested for taking part in picket lines and demonstrations, including the nation's No. 1 Presbyterian, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, in Maryland...
...against the excesses of expectation on both sides, the day began in anticlimax. Overnight, special trains and buses began moving into Washington from all parts of the U.S. Some of the early arrivals went off to picket Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department. But most of those getting off the trains in Washington's Union Station seemed weary, bewildered and subdued...