Word: stone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief organizer of the protest was Folk Singer Joan Baez, who sent a letter to 350 onetime activists and celebrities asking them to sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal...
...course, some stars did sparkle for Harvard. The freshman ranks brought tennis ace Betsy Richmond, who amassed a bevy of Harvard racquet firsts, and diving power Pam Stone, who helped brighten Stefi Walsh's retirement-plagued squad (five veteran swimmers did not participate this year). Senior Geoff Stiles made Harvard the kingdom of pole vaulting, and Joe Bernal's swimmers enjoyed a victory addiction...
...women's swim team strokes to a fine fourth-place finish at the Ivy Championships. Freshman diving ace Pam Stone takes first from one meter and second off the high board...
Grigorenko, now 70, need not have worried. The old soldier was stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1978, and found asylum (political, that is) in the U.S. Reich and colleagues, including Psychiatrists Alan Stone of Harvard and Lawrence Kolb of Columbia, conducted their elaborate mental and neurological tests anyway. The verdict: the tough, bald-pated general is as solid as the Kremlin's walls, with nary a crack in his mental armor...
...fascinating glimpses of the video-taped examination of Grigorenko (Q. "Why did you [engage in dissident acts] if you thought you might be shot?" A. "What's the sense of living one extra year if you continue in the fraud of not facing things?"). Though A.P.A. President-elect Stone sent his evaluation on to Soviet Psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky, who had encouraged the American tests, the findings are not likely to end Soviet psychiatric abuses. Snezhnevsky dismissed the results as a "misdiagnosis," a consequence of "not knowing all the features of community life in [Grigorenko's] native land...