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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barricades. Continuing the counterattack that he mounted earlier in the month, Lyndon Johnson sent several members of his official family to the barricades with speeches criticizing his critics. On an educational TV show, Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the U.S. does not seek "to make China our enemy," but "to contain the militant instincts or aggressive patterns of Communist China's conduct." Both the second-and third-ranking men in the State Department defended the Administration's policies-Under Secretary Nicholas Katzenbach in a speech at Connecticut's Fairfield University and Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
Despite a declining fervor for the civil rights movement, students are still eager to hear from two Negro militants: Stokely Carmichael and Dick Gregory. When they seek a religious figure, campus organizations think first of two unconventional Episcopal clergymen: the Rev. Malcolm (Are You Running with Me, Jesus?) Boyd and Bishop James A. Pike. Among academics, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith this year seems to be slightly more in vogue than Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan...
While the ideas of Wilson and Ling may seem far-fetched, they are actually part of a coherent concept of what urban life should be. Both towns seek to keep down the number of autos--Runcorn through its minibuses; Skelmersdale by pedestrian ways through the compact city. Both towns separate industry from housing, but keep jobs within ten minutes of home...
...close touch with the students, with their hopes for the law, and with their hopes for the Law School. This is not to say that he need be an advocate of de facto "student power," merely that he do what Dean Griswold refused to do--seek out a wide variety of student views and make an honest attempt at understanding them. With rare exceptions, those who meet this qualification were all trained in the law after World War II. Because of their youth, they can appreciate fully students' concern with urban decay, international chicanery, racial turmoil, and the problem...
...General James M. Gavin as a Democratic alternative to President Johnson, Lowenstein predicted that Gavin--who refused the New York liberal's advice to run as a Democrat last summer--"could have won the nomination and stood a good chance of being elected President. Instead, General Gavin will probably seek the Republican nomination and might be elected...