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Unlike their counterparts in France, who boast a staunch ally in labor, West German students must usually go it alone in their stormy protests. But they keep at it just the same, and last week was no exception. At Frankfurt University, 200 members of the Socialist German Students' League barricaded university entrances, surrounded buildings with a tough, red-helmeted picket line and battled anyone who tried to enter classrooms. At Bonn University, 1,000 students boycotted lectures. At more than a dozen other West German universities and colleges, thousands more staged teach-ins and protest marches...
...major result of the President's aloofness will be to free the party leaders in major states who had been holding their delegations for Johnson. Gov. Richard J. Hughes, formerly a staunch LBJ man, has decided to hold his delegation uncommitted as a favorite son. But the state's top leaders--John V. Kenny, leader of the Hudson County stronghold, Rep. Frank Thompson, and state chairman Robert J. Burkhardt--haev announced for Kennedy, and privately Hughes concedes that RFK will win the nomination...
Beneath the front-page Winship wearing baby-blue suspenders, however, is the editorial Winship -- the staunch old American idealist. He believes in honesty, simplicity, loyal opposition when necessary. He is not a subtle thinker, but an earnest one. "There is nothing that would improve the image of America more than if we passed a 'Ghetto Tax,'" he suggests. On second thought, he sees the impracticality of his proposal--"but what a wonderful commitment of national purpose." If you bring up America or the Globe in conversation, you are touching his soft spot. He waxes maudlin and concludes, "I know that...
Vermonters did not make up their minds easily. Before passage, the bill faced a mini-filibuster in the legislature while anguished outdoor admen argued that the billboard ban would boomerang on business. Governor Philip H. Hoff, a Democrat and a staunch supporter of the legislation, contended that, on the contrary, "by making our highways more attractive, we will improve business...
Peace has always been uppermost in the Ibis's mind. He feels man must learn to live in harmony if he is to live at all. Yet he was a staunch advocate of preparedness in the late thirties, as one by one he saw the dominoes of disaster spell out their hideous gavotte...