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...Regarding the Quaker Action Group and sending supplies to Viet Nam [Aug. 11], Friends have sent medical supplies to South Viet Nam, the National Liberation Front, and North Viet Nam. We have had a concern for all victims of the war, not merely those in the north...
Most of the delegates were pacifists, nonetheless, and the assemblage duly applauded the U.N.'s Buddhist Secretary-General U Thant, who in effect demanded that the U.S. get out of Viet Nam. Quakers happily reported that they have funneled $25,000 to Canadians who deliver medical supplies to North Viet Nam. One group was hoping to sponsor another sally of the Quaker-owned ketch Phoenix into Haiphong harbor with medicines...
...Forefront. The son of a Quaker minister and holder of a degree in composition from Boston University, Ellis served his apprenticeship by playing and writing for groups of every musical stripe from Charlie Mingus and Woody Herman to the New York Philharmonic, with interludes of teaching and organizing jazz happenings. His band currently works only once a week regularly, at a Hollywood spot called Bonesville; between dates, he supports himself by playing studio orchestras and scoring TV sound tracks. Now he has a long string of offers from festivals in Europe and the U.S. He sees himself in the forefront...
...started well enough. Senior southpaw Jim McCandlish held Penn hitless for the first three innings while his teammates were collecting two tallies off the Quaker hurler, Marc Schoenfield. The big blows for Harvard were two long triples by Dan Hootstein and Pete Karegeannes, each of which would have been inside-the-park home runs except for the muddy outfield grass...
John Levin lost the first set to top Quaker City Hamlin before he could get untracked and succumbed, 6-2, 6-4. Bernie Adelsberg took, the first set off Penn's Fred Levin at number two, but the steady Sylvan wore down the Crimson's number two man, parlaying a steady backhand and Adelsberg's rusty volleying to a 6-8, 8-6, 6-3, decision...