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...France, the West's tough, new line is referred to pointedly as "the American policy." Though De Gaulle's sweeping powers have virtually reduced the French people to kibitzers, a nuclear war over Berlin is unthinkable to the pragmatic Frenchman sipping vermouth in his sidewalk cafe. With the French army tied up in Algeria, the thought of even a limited-war tactic such as driving an armored column through to a blockaded Berlin frightens the French, who are only 150 miles from Russian armies in East Germany. "To deliberately create such an international crisis in the thermonuclear...
...midnight, the hopefuls were jamming the sidewalk on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. One pregnant woman perched precariously on a fireplug. At 1 a.m. the mad milliner of the magnificent mile, Benjamin Benedict Greenfield, strolled into view, bareheaded, nodding to women with familiar bees in their bonnets...
Nose to Nose. Quickly, the Fall River Plan spread to nearby towns. Teenagers, backed by parents, staged pop concerts, cake sales, manned sidewalk booths, highway "toll stations,'' ran a dress shop. Fradkin meanwhile pushed his plan by letter, phone, or nose-to-nose persuasion, got more inquiries than he could handle. Last year he organized the communities with do-it-yourself scholarship plans into the loosely knit Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc., charged a $50 chartering fee to pay for a rented typewriter, phone bills, and the salary of the sole employee of the foundation...
...Sidewalk Prophets Predict...
When fourth President Wilbur K. Jordan announced in Spring, 1959, his intention to resign, the sidewalk property whispered that Radcliffe might never have another president. Late in May a giggle of cartoonists filled the front pages of the CRIMSON with their speculations about Jordan's successor. They imagined everything from a specially adapted Univac to a self-prepared Harvard undergraduate. They couldn't have been more wrong...