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...written off as a condescending cynic. But last week, when the votes in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary were counted, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eu gene J. McCarthy came off-to practically everyone's surprise-a hero. THE UNFORESEEN EUGENE, proclaimed a placard toted by one of his fans after the balloting, and that said...
...Harvard economist whose power of persuasion and talent for popularization are as noteworthy as his Brobdingnagian size (he is 6 ft. 8 in.), offers more convincingly than almost anyone else the respectable alternative that Johnson has repeatedly demanded of his attackers. He is neither a name caller nor a placard carrier. He is no Mary McCarthy, who fatuously insists that it is the intellectual's duty merely to oppose the war, without deigning to suggest how it ought to be ended. Nor does he resemble those clergymen whose justifiable indignation at the war's barbarities is diluted by the fact...
During Eastman Kodak Co.'s annual meeting last week in Flemington, N.J., 600 demonstrators paraded quietly outside the local high school. "Kodak is out of focus," read one placard. "The poor will win," proclaimed another. Attending the meeting briefly, the demonstration's leader, Negro Clergyman Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence, 33, stalked angrily out, thundering: "This is not a meeting of stockholders. This is a meeting of racists." All the rancor obscured the fact that the company did record business during 1967's first quarter...
...military's mood was not improved when placard-waving, pro-Papandreou forces took to the streets, battling right-wing students in Salonica and police in Athens. "This will be a constitutional deviation, a royal dictatorship," Papandreou predicted. "We have only one answer: a people's revolution." To this the King replied: "If Papandreou starts a revolution, I will start the counter-revolution." Unable to get enough votes to form a government, Kanellopoulos dissolved Parliament, set the elections for May 28?and thus, wittingly or unwittingly, cleared the stage for last week's coup...
Under the flags stood Boston's most faithful counterdemonstrators, the Polish Freedom Fighters, brandishing a "Bomb Hanoi" placard. One of them, who gave his name as Cliff Arneson and said he had just gotten out of the service, mounted an overturned trash can and began haranguing people about the necessity to fight in Vietnam "to preserve our freedom and theirs...