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...surged sharply but briefly, after President Nixon's decision to escalate the bombing of North Vietnam and mine the country's harbors. Yet peace activity was both slower and less forceful at Harvard than at many other colleges throughout the nation. While many schools were whipped into nearly instantaneous rage following Nixon's March 30 speech, students here failed to mount any serious antiwar actions until a week later when a loose coalition of antiwar groups called a mass campus meeting to plan protests...
...possession that Jimmie covets above all is a white wife. When he gets one-a dim, sniveling, pregnant teenager whose child does not even turn out to be his-a murderous rage is born. Jimmie realizes that the white side of his nature is as doomed to suffocation as the black. Cheated by his employers, taunted and humiliated beyond endurance, he undertakes mayhem as a sort of mad ritual, an attempt to be for once the white man's priest and judge instead of his willing nigger...
...train to civilization. But the train is robbed by four bandits whose hostage she becomes. Naturally, the leader is not your ordinary outlaw. Strong, silent and sexy, Jay Grobart is stealing in a good cause. Ten years earlier he killed his Indian wife, Cat Dancing, in a jealous rage. Having paid his debt to society, he is seeking to buy back his children from the Shoshone who adopted them...
...South Carolina delegation, which they said lacked a sufficient number of women. In the caucus, McGovern had said that he "fully and unequivocally" backed the women on South Carolina. Betty Friedan complained: "We were cynically misused." Now they were outraged, and in the case of Gloria Steinem, tearful with rage. Calling the McGovern operatives "bastards," she had to be led from the floor in the middle of the abortion debate...
Much of Republican Riegle's rage and despair reflect his feelings about his party chief and President, Richard M. Nixon. The President, he says, urged him to run in 1966. In 1968 Nixon told him, "Well, you know, Don, if we're elected, we'll end this war in six months." But the war went on. Largely for that reason, Riegle became one of a small band of liberal anti-Nixon Republicans. He soon found himself dropped from the White House invitation list. He could not even get Nixon to pose with the little Michigan girl...