Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politicians often cannot forgive his hauteur, and recoil at what seems to be his rule-or-ruin approach. He is unpredictable, uncontrollable. Would he attack agricultural subsidies? Farm groups wonder. How far beyond Medicare would he go in expanding Government medical services? Organized medicine worries. He speaks for tax reform and attacks the oil-depletion allowance, as others have for years, but Bobby might just be tough enough to get something done about...
...been relatively specific (see box). In Indiana and Nebraska, perhaps fearing a backlash, he emphasized law and order to white audiences?but never failed to mention Negro needs as well. Nor does he shrink from challenging an audience. On campus after campus he has called for draft reform and an end to student deferments. Usually he wins applause. At Omaha's Creighton University, he demanded: "Why should we have a draft system that favors the rich? You should be the last people to accept this." There was stunned silence. For the long run, he wants to abolish the draft...
...blue Cuban. French "Red Guards" strung up posters proclaiming such sentiments as "It's forbidden to forbid" and "Humanity will not be happy until the last capitalist is hanged with the entrails of the last bureaucrat." The stone bust of Auguste Comte, the 19th century French philosopher-reformer who coined the term sociology, was draped with a red bandanna; a red flag adorned the statue of Louis Pasteur. Inside, in jampacked auditoriums, thousands applauded allright debates that ranged over every conceivable topic, from the "anesthesia of affluence" to the elimination of "bourgeois spectacles" and how to share their "revolution...
...released yesterday, demonstrates an incredible lack of familiarity with students groups and their goals. He testified that SDS is "anarchistic," "subversive," and "infiltrated by Communist party members." He described its purpose of movement to be "an almost passionate desire to destroy, to annihilate, to tear down." Hoover apparently equates reform with anarchy...
...Paris turned into a battlefield. As retreating students hurled Molotov cocktails and set fire to many autos, the explosion of their gasoline tanks mixed with the pop of police tear-gas grenades. In a belated weekend effort to restore calm, Premier Georges Pompidou proclaimed on radio and television that reform of the university system was "indispensable," and promised to reopen the Sorbonne this week. He even hinted that appeal courts would deal lightly with already convicted student leaders...