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Harvard pays about $1 million for land behind Burr Hall; the Graduate School of Design will move there. Otto Preminger says he will make a movie about the "aimless rebellion and search for intense senory experience of today's college students." "We are not making a movie about Harvard or about Alpert and Leary," his screenwriter explains, "but the Harvard story is certainly relevant to our purposes." Harvard Faculty members urge that schoolchildren be taught to drink and that intra-uterine devices be supplied to young girls...
...naked political power plays, inspired if not condoned by militant Monk Thich Tri Quang in Hue. While the flames were still flickering over the nun's charred body, Tri Quang summoned the press to make clear his grievance: Premier Ky's successful suppression of the Buddhist-inspired rebellion in nearby Danang, a "crime" against Buddhists equal to the "crime of Hiroshima." Moreover, he said, it had been "masterminded by the United States President...
Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif...
...whose ouster as I Corps commander last March started South Viet Nam's latest political crisis. Though Buddhist marches and riots raged through Saigon all last week, Tri Quang so far had failed to arouse any widespread popular resentment against Ky and his government. The muscle of rebellion has been provided by I Corps Vietnamese soldiers who have remained loyal to Thi despite his ouster. If Thi and Ky can come to terms, the Buddhists will be shorn of their main allies...
Iraq may not have major-league baseball or daylight-saving time, but it has come to recognize an equally reliable sign of spring. Each year, as the snows melt in the lofty mountain passes along the border of northern Iraq, the sporadic, five-year-old guerrilla rebellion of Iraq's stubborn 1,500,000 Kurdish tribesmen flares up again-fueled by fresh weapons and ammunition lugged in by donkey caravan over the mountains from fellow Kurds in Iran...