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Vietnam Summer is Alperovitz's brainchild: a fact he will rarely acknowledge in private and never in public. But when King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the controversial managing editor of Ramparts, Robert Scheer, got together for a press conference, the New York Times did not mention the 29-year-old peace organizer. Even if he did start the whole thing...
...Times story caused bitter disputes between the project members who supported Scheer's move and those who thought it would destroy the project. At one point, Scheer was cancelled from the press conference in an attempt to avoid linking the two issues. With Scheer out of the conference, Carl Oglesby, former national president of SDS was brought in to replace his appeal to radical students.6A summer of nationwide "Alperovitzing" begins in Cambridge as door-to-door canvassers ring local doorbells...
After King makes his statement, he will be joined in a press conference by Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician and co-chairman of SANE, and Robert Scheer, editor of Ramparts. Spock and King were leaders of the New York rally. It is not yet known where the meeting will be held...
...runs no risk as long as it has his enthusiastic support, plus that of several other radical-leaning San Francisco businessmen and intellectuals. Ramparts pays the going rate for contributions, supports a staff of 26, many of whom are political activists as well as ardent journalists. Managing Editor Robert Scheer ran for Congress in the Democratic primary last year on a New Left platform calling for unilateral withdrawal from Viet Nam. He lost, but he gave Incumbent Jeffery Cohelan a rough fight. Keating himself ran unsuccessfully in a congressional primary in San Mateo County...
...Outside Quincy House in the summer-like afternoon, some 600 students gathered to hear Editor Scheer denounce U.S. policy. Split roughly in half between those for and those against the Government, the crowd carried signs reading STOP THE WAR, NAPALM S.D.S., and BACK MAC. Scheer's oratory raised emotional temperatures even higher. S.D.S. members, awaiting McNamara's departure, watched all Quincy House exits. Officials dispatched several cars as decoys before McNamara slipped into a police wagon. About 25 S.D.S. members spotted . the vehicle, threw themselves under its wheels. Their shouts of "We got him-we got him!" brought...