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...year old wolf was tame, but it scared shit out of the Secret Service agents assigned to keep an eye on the demonstrator. Harris, wearing a placard that said "wolves are better wild than worn," told interested passersby that the wolf is an endangered species. The economic incentive for killing wolves (a single pelt brings about $200 from clothing manufacturers) must be ended, he said...
Daniel Ellsberg '52, who spoke to the Nieman Fellows two days before Colby, carried a placard at the demonstration that read, "William Colby Murders Humans and Democracy." He criticized Colby for making "off-record-comments" during the closed meeting...
Daniel Ellsberg '54, who spoke to the Nieman fellows Monday afternoon, was among the protesters. Ellsberg carried a placard that said "William Colby Murders Humans and Democracy...
...only discordant note was sounded by several thousand Greek Americans who were demonstrating in Grant Park across the street from the V.F.W. convention in the Conrad Hilton hotel. They were protesting U.S. policy in Cyprus, but their principal target was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, not Ford. Demanded one placard: FORD, FIRE KISSINGER...
...Like a placard bearer of apocalypse, he foretells man's doom from his bloody beginnings. The thesis: man evolved from perverted apes who ate the brains of other apes. Brains being an aphrodisiac, they increased the sex drive, which in turn increased the need for more brain food. This diet increased the size of the ape man's brain and his intelligence. Unfortunately, the skull did not increase as fast as the brain, and the resulting pressure distorted man's view of himself as a part of nature. The squeezed-brain syndrome gave rise...