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During the noon recess, Rubin denied Pierson's allegations and said the policeman had not been an important bodyguard...
Cross-examining in the afternoon, defense attorney William M. Kunstler quoted Pierson's testimony before a grand jury and the House Un-American Activities Committee to contradict his testimony today. After pressing for details of how Pierson got involved with Rubin. Kunstler asked for a recess to finish reading prosecution evidence...
Ptashne outlined to the crowd of about 100 what he understood to be the basic strategy of the Faculty meeting. "It firstseemed logical that they would either let the Mendelsohn motion through since it was so weak and then recess or else recess immediately," he said. "Instead they amended Mendelsohn's motion so that it was apolitical...
...Then it seemed that they would either amend Mendelsohn's motion and recess or, if the amendment failed, recess immediately," Ptashne continued. "That would have been rational. But what actually happened was that Mendelsohn gave a strong speech, stressing that the Moratorium was a political and moral matter that should be discussed at the meeting. Our opposition panicked...
...Because that amendment passed we thought we were lost," Ptashne said. But at 5:45 p.m., when Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, moved for a 15-minute recess, "no one understood the strategy." By 6 p.m. at a Faculty meeting, Ptashne said, no one is really concentrating- "you have to keep mainlining dexedrine to keep awake...