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...repertory company will expand theater participation at Harvard. The Crimson suggested that Brustein and the rep would "attract more talented and committed students interested in theater." Under Brustein's plan the number of Harvard Dramatic Club shows will be cut from seven to four a year. Admittedly, a few select undergraduates will be able to work in rep company shows, but participation will be limited to those students who have taken courses offered by members of the company. There is every reason to believe that those courses will continue to be non-credit...
...March 26, 1968, agent G.C. Moore set forth a plan to "curtail the success" of King's "poor people's march on Washington D.C." In his letter--which was obtained by the Select Senate Committee--Moore pointed out that the SCLC had solicited financial contributions from some 70,000 possible donors by mail. He suggested that this fact be publicized through "cooperative media contacts" to imply "that King does not need contributions from the 70,000 people he solicited. Since the churches have offered support, no more money is needed and any contributed would only be used by King...
Neither the Select Senate Committee nor any other investigative body has ever ascertained why the FBI placed King's SCLC in its list of black nationalist hate groups. The Senate Committee's report concluded that King's attacks of Hoover in the national press in part caused the director to overreact to King's presence on the national political scene...
Lyndon Johnson ran the Senate. Even in the House of Representatives, where the dying seniority system once brought an excessive stability, only two committee chairmen will have held their positions for more than six years, and seven committees are likely to select new chairmen...
...town's Common Council. Their ads for the party ticket included his picture and stressed his 16 years of service on the council. They did not mention that he died soon after the ballots were printed. The Democrats urged his re-election so that the party could select his successor. Voters chose a live Republican instead...