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...Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, the cause fared better. Officials waived the rules and 11-year-old Susan Farbin entered the Soap Box Derby traditionally open only to boys aged 11 to 15. She obtained the sponsorship of the National Organization for Women and emblazoned her bright pink racer with a Women's Lib emblem of sexual equality. In the derby finals, Susan may have unsettled some of the boys' dawning prejudices about women drivers by going faster than a greased (male chauvinist) pig and taking three trophies-for best racer construction, first in her age class and second...
Soon Ellsberg, who seemed set for a brilliant Government career, was beginning to feel the lash of collective guilt. Even before the Tet offensive in 1968, he began to voice his doubts about the war; his initial attack came during a gathering of intellectuals in Bermuda under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Endowment. As the war dragged on, his sense of personal guilt heightened and his torment deepened. His conflict had developed to the point that even Kissinger was reluctant to include Ellsberg in the Nixon planning group...
...survival of the current Southeast Asian governments. The most recent symbol of Japan's growing political and economic concern with the area is the dispatch in February of a 34-member "Asian investment and finance research mission" led by the Director of Tokyo's stock exchange under government sponsorship...
...Hanoi government or the FLN had been invited to speak and permitted to enter the country and attend, it might then be considered an event coming under the protection of this University's code on academic rights and responsibilities (as does, for example, the physics department's sponsorship of Dr. Land's lecture). But merely to speak of that alternative arrangement is to draw attention to its political impossibility. And for this University to throw a mantle of academic privilege and right over that rally as it was organized is to endorse political policies that have defined the Hanoi government...
Decision to punish will reflect what is already an established bias for the rights of academicians to undisrupted peace and quiet over the rights of Third World people to life itself. This bias can be seen in Harvard's continuing sponsorship of Henry Kissinger, and those at Harvard who would eagerly take his place. The two rights come into conflict...