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Students for a Democratic Society--SDS has an interesting background at Harvard. Its predecessor, TOCSIN, was vital in the early 1960's at Harvard; it was intellectually oriented and lasted as long as ban-the-bomb was an issue, but the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty wiped out TOCSIN's importance. In 1964, the old TOCSIN remnants and several new groups combined to fill the vacuum for civil rights and peace activities. The TOCSIN tradition was one of sophisticated analysis and objectivity, but in the past year there have been trends both towards more emotionally satisfying tactics of confrontation and towards...
...SDS made headlines last spring when Defense Secretary McNamara emerged from Quincy House to find some 800 demonstrators and onlookers blocking his way. Ultimately McNamara was forced to escape through the Leverett tunnel to the Central Kitchens. Harvard apologized officially for the incident, and so did a substantial part of the student body in a petition, but for SDS it was a major achievement to have confronted one of the chief symbols of the Vietnam...
Actually, most of SDS's work is done indoors, and is far less dramatic. Regular members have come to expect the same bureaucratic problems that beset Harvard's less radical organizations, and the group's meetings are often long and fruitless...
About 70 students mostly affiliated with local SDS chapters attended the demonstration which ended in a melee with police in front of the hospital entrance...
...year-old student at the University of Texas, an SDS member, and according to friends "one of the best known peace activists" in the University of Texas Committee...