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...Where You From?" Romney, jaunting from mess hall to hospital ward, shook hands with hundreds and passed out countless Michigan-state medallions graven with his name. But he often seemed more like a thoughtless than a thoughtful candidate. At the military hospital at Danang, he marched under the glare of television lights into a ward for seriously wounded U.S. servicemen. He glad-handed one Marine and asked: "Where are you from?" but the soldier could not answer because he had a tracheotomy tube protruding from his throat. "Where were you injured?" the Governor asked another patient, whose bleeding neck...
...through four years of doubt and cynicism, he shook his fist at mortality-the defiance sometimes gorgeously expressed, at others trapped by fuzzy rhetoric. In the last entry, Thomas wrapped together the best and the worst that he had seen and felt...
...striking painting of Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, caused several controversies during the '20's and 30's. Many people questioned the taste of displaying a Russian revolutionary hero's portrait in a Harvard House...
There are serious dangers of violence among the new approaches to Black Power. Still at work are extremists who could shatter every vestige of positive action. Street riots shook Philadelphia when a recent Black Power demonstration abruptly degenerated into a free-for-all with the police. The toll: 22 injured, 57 arrests. In the Oakland-San Francisco area, the Black Panthers, the Black Students Union and other young, activist, Negro organizations have prompted deep concern among both state and local authorities...
...Much Guff. Johnson, who had spent the previous two days doing his best to explain why in hard-hitting speeches at eight U.S. military bases around the nation, managed to appear unruffled. Leaving the church, Lady Bird chirped a noncommittal "Wonderful choir." Smiling stiffly, the President shook hands with Lewis, mumbled "Thank you" and departed. Titillated by the event, Washington reporters in vented a slew of mock news bulletins and tacked them to a White House bulletin board. "President Johnson," said one, "announced late Sunday he has commissioned Artist Peter Hurd to paint a portrait...