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...four-man forward line will feature Jim Saltonstall, two-time All-Ivy, at right inside; Dudley Blodget, last year's Ivy assist leader, at right wing; junior letterman Lutz Hoeppner at left inside; and sophomore standout Scott Robertson at left wing...
...reputation and for the morale of South Africa's voiceless millions. The white-supremacist regime of Hendrik Verwoerd had done what it could to limit Kennedy's impact. It imposed a five-year "ban" -social and political excommunication without stated cause or trial-on Ian Robertson, 21, head of the National Union of South African Students, who had first invited Kennedy to that country. It also barred foreign newsmen who wanted to accompany Kennedy on his four-day tour. The only government representatives he saw were policemen...
...Durban, Kennedy stood atop a car and sang We Shall Overcome with his audience. In Groutville, he visited Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the proscribed African National Congress. At Cape Town University, standing next to the symbolic empty chair that Ian Robertson could not occupy, Kennedy told his racially mixed audience: "We must recognize the full human equality of all our people-before God, before the law and in the councils of government, for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing...
...questionable. Boothe, in virtually every speech this month, has reminded his audience that he voted in 1959, as a state senator, for the plan which reopened public schools closed during a desegregation crisis, while Byrd Jr. voted against the proposals. (The plan passed the State Senate by one vote.) Robertson has consistently opposed civil rights legislation during his '33 years in Congress...
...Robertson seems stung by charges that he's too old to be in the Senate. He stumps the state, telling of his hunting and fishing abilities, swinging bats as well as throwing out first balls at Little League openings, and reminding the people how valuable congressional seniority can be. A senator since 1946--and facing his first real opposition this year--he is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. If he is beaten, that post would go to Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois--provided Douglas, 74, beats another young contender, Charles Percy, 46, in his state...