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Harvard's tennis team scored a major upset Saturday when it stunned mighty Pennsylvania 5-4. Penn had been picked with Princeton as a pre-season favorite to win the Eastern title...
Instead of one pre-eminent Negro spokesman like King-or two or three like Walter White, Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall in the '40s and early '50s-there are dozens today, each speaking for Negroes in his own area or in his own economic or social sphere. A nationwide attack on poverty or discrimination may be doomed to failure, but an assault on a specific or local ill may very well prove to be successful. A few of the militants, points out Harvard Government Professor Martin Kilson, are discovering the meaning of quid pro quo-and gaining meaningful...
...onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with more confidence than it had had before. The pacification program in the countryside turns out not to have been hit so hard as at first suspected: out of the 629 pre-Tet Revolutionary Development teams, 545 are back in the field, 449 of those in their planned 1968 locations. Tet also brought home to the South Vietnamese the deadly earnestness of the war. That realization has produced not only the general mobilization but also a closing of nightclubs and black markets...
...insisting that they have never seen a severe illness (psychosis) brought on by marijuana-in sharp contrast with the frequency of such breakdowns among people on LSD. Dr. Duke Fisher, of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute, says: "When normal people take marijuana, there's no adverse reaction. When pre-psychotic people take it, there can be a serious psychotic reaction, but then marijuana is only a catalyst, and often only in conjunction with LSD or some other powerful drug. A possible reaction in a disturbed but not psychotic person is to become 'strung out'-psychologically dependent on marijuana...
...Pre-trial hearings opened in Boston yesterday in the case of Dr. Benjamin Spock, Yale chaplain the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., and three others charged by the Federal government with conspiring to encourage draft resistance...