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Orwellian Horror. By last week, when the first two hostels were scheduled to open, the proposed living conditions had raised a storm of protest. Progressive Party M.P. Helen Suzman called the hostels an "Orwellian horror." White women, churchmen and students staged placard protests. Some of the shock felt by chic matrons over the city's "white by night" policy, as it is called, was undoubtedly at the prospect of having no servants to wait on candlelit dinner parties-but by no means all of it was. At a jampacked citizens' meeting, Anglican Bishop John Carter condemned the hostels...
...stormed and burned the British embassy in Merrion Square. Police stood by helplessly as petrol bombs rained down on the 18th century Georgian building, which had been vacated the previous day for fear of attacks. The crowd shouted "Burn, baby, burn!" when the roof caved in, and a placard read ADOLF HITLER IS ALIVE AND LIVING IN 10 DOWNING STREET. Lynch apologized for the in incident, which he said had been carried out by "a small minority" of subversives. He offered to reimburse the British government for the $255,000 in damages, but he could not promise to control...
...want my rights back," said the placard carried by a woman picketing the city's courthouse...
...report also lists the names of all the Philadelphia policemen assigned to the demonstration, and the name of a reporter who covered it for WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. In a section headlined"Signs," it mentions a single placard reading "Science is for helping people, not removing them in Vietnam or West Philadelphia...
...mistake of feeling relieved of my responsibility-the most beautiful opportunity was missed. We could have proved that science could end a war without killing a single individual. Instead, we killed 100,000. And ever since then there has been a rising tide of anti-science sentiment." (The next placard was raised: "The Humility of the War Criminal: 'Scientists Are Fallible...