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Mass revolt is no recent institution at Harvard. To manifest their response to spring, however, four students, of apparently bookish nature, did introduce a wholly different breed of insurgency: ingenuity and individuality became the tenor of the Dark Suit Rebellion that rocked Harvard College in the previous century...
More successful, and certainly the most energetic of the insurgents fomenting the Dark Suit Rebellion, of course, was the instigator, Charles Summer. Where Lowell hankered for the more arresting colors, the radical Summer thought a more conservative buff would suffice. The faculty did not. Mere approximations to the permissible white vest were not to be condoned...
...TIME'S coverage of the Dominican situation [May 7] was most illuminating, especially the special section on the long history of fear and hate on the entire island of Hispaniola. It is common knowledge that a Dominican rebellion was bound to come. In fact, most political scientists predicted this long before the assassination of Trujillo. Therefore, the necessity for immediate troop movements by President Johnson did not come as a great surprise to Latin diplomats. The protection of our nationals and the prevention of a Communist take-over surely provided enough justification...
Britain has warned that it would regard U.D.I, as "rebellion," break relations with the outlaw regime and impose an economic boycott, which would throw thousands of whites out of work and send the economy into a tailspin. Opposition Leader David Butler, 37, a wealthy tobacco farmer, was well aware of the consequences. "The Rhodesian way of life would be ruined by U.D.I.," he warned. "It is a way of life that depends on economic prosperity...
Gergen explained that reading period the logical time for such rebellion be expressed, since the system is leaving students alone for a express purpose of attacking them renewed vigor after the interne...