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...South, a historically bellicose region, a traveler sees a random yellow ribbon tied on a mailbox. Church suppers are putting together toilet kits to send to the soldiers in the gulf. Mothers with children serving in the Middle East are still sympathetic celebrities in the neighborhoods. And yet, as a conservative civil engineer in Atlanta remarked wearily last week, "every time I turn around, we seem to be going to some damned war or another. It just doesn't seem to stop...
...gulf wrote to his family, "I am glad I am the only one of my generation in our family to volunteer to serve his country. Hopefully I will make a triumphant return to Norfolk with a bunch of medals pinned to my uniform. It looks like the combat service ribbon is a shoo...
That point was made emphatically last week by Boston University. When King was enrolled, the school declared, rules for citation were "strict, explicit and explicitly made known to all graduate students." The university has formed a blue-ribbon committee to investigate the alleged infraction. At worst, the school could strip King of his doctorate posthumously. But even though the revelations may tarnish King's reputation, they hardly diminish his - courageous and inspirational accomplishments in helping to achieve racial justice for millions of black Americans...
...afternoon ceremony, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will cut the ribbon to open the Adaptive Technology Lab for Students with Disabilities, which will provide special support for students with visual or manual impairments...
...side as often as not. One evening after plying L.B.J. with Scotch, Ike pointed to his own chair in the Oval Office and said, "Senator, someday you should be in that chair." Johnson roared back to his office in the Capitol wearing that tribute like a battle ribbon...