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...proposals of the graduate school deans, which represent the almost unanimous consensus of educators from all parts of the country, should stir government officials to act to eliminate the disruption, uncertainty and hardship caused by present draft laws...
Promise Fulfilled. William Styron, 42, left the South 20 years ago, but he goes home again in his books to stir old ashes. His first novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951), won for him that dubious badge, "promising." And so the book was-an earnest and sometimes discerning attempt, in the Southern magnolia school of fiction, to deal with the failure of a marriage...
...danger that any intensification of the war could prompt Chinese intervention has receded with the turmoil brought on by Peking's Proletarian Cultural Revolution, but it has not disappeared. As for increasing the bombing, there is a hazard that it would stir hope in the U.S. that a little more bombing will end the war-and thus pave the way for a later letdown and demands for peace at any price...
However accurate it may prove to be, any such appraisal from the White House is bound to stir a skeptical reaction. For a growing number of Republican leaders, in particular, no amount of rosy predictions will conceal the fact that Lyndon Johnson is vulnerable on the war issue. That conviction was reinforced during the Labor Day recess, when vacationing Congressmen sounded out their constituents. Said Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton: "The people I talked to a year ago were saying, 'Bomb hell out of that little country.' Now they're saying...
Stokes, 40, a handsome, articulate lawyer with an outstanding record in the Ohio House of Representatives, has based a low-key campaign on the lackluster administration of Mayor Locher, 52, and the apathy toward ghetto problems at city hall that helped stir four days of rioting last year in the Negro slum district of Hough. Stokes's campaign advertising proclaims: DON'T VOTE FOR A NEGRO FOR MAYOR. Underneath, in smaller type, the ads urge: "Vote for a Man Who Believes in Cleveland, Carl B. Stokes." Figuring that he can count on East Side Negroes anyway, Stokes...