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...Owing largely to the efforts of an individual student, John Leavitt, Marquette University sent the first telegram to American forces in Viet Nam showing "appreciation for their efforts in fighting for freedom." Within five days, 2,047 students of Marquette, which has a total enrollment of fewer than 13,000, signed the telegram...
...leaders of last Saturday's march on Washington will soon reply to telegram they received from Ho Chi Minh, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, said yesterday...
...Minnesota 9,000, at Southern Illinois University more than 4,500, at University of Texas near ly 4,000 in just three days, at St. Louis University 2,453, at Stanford 2,300, at Yale 1,000. Contributing 40? each, 1,002 students at Princeton sent a $393* telegram to General William Westmoreland's headquarters in Saigon to state their appreciation of "the sacrifices" U.S. troops are making...
...Rhodesia Smith inherited was not conciliatory either. When the United Party decided to accept the 1961 constitution, Smith resigned in a rage-and immediately received a telegram of congratulations from archconservative Tobacco Tycoon Douglas Collard Lilford. "Ian Smith, and Ian Smith alone, was the one to get up and say no," recalls "Boss" Lilford. "He was the only blessed one to resign. This man has steel in him." Smith drove out to Lilford's estate near Salisbury, talked the tobacco man into helping him found the Rhodesian Front to preserve "Rhodesia for the Rhodesians...
...telegram also urged those men subject to the draft to accept the call or claim deferment as conscientious objectors, or be willing to accept the legal consequences of their refusal to serve...