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...Martin Luther King sent a telegram yesterday to H. Reed Ellis '65, president of the now defunct HCUA, urging response "to the vicious maltreatment of defenseless citizens of Alabama...
Thirteen Harvard Law and Medical School professors sent a telegram yesterday to President Johnson protesting police action against the demonstrators in Selma, Alabama and urging federal intervention, while Boston civil rights groups scheduled a protest rally for today...
...telegram read in part: "We who support you feel that the promise of the Great Society will be illusory if you do not exercise your . . . right to safeguard the basic human and constitutional rights of the people. Surely the time for . . . effective executive action has now come...
...dominated by civil rights militants, Trotskyite groups, and members of a Communist front, called a strike on the 27,500-student campus at Berkeley. "We have promised that this university shall not run," said Savio, "and we shall keep that promise." One-third of the Berkeley faculty signed a telegram to Kerr and Strong urging amnesty for the four students who face punishment, and 5,000 students staged a rally outside Sproul Hall to hear speeches, strike appeals, and a final folk song in Portuguese by Joan Baez...
...favorite yarn at the National Football League's plush Manhattan head quarters concerns a plaintive telegram that Commissioner Pete Rozelle received from a coach in the rival American Football League. POPE JOHN WAS A GREAT MAN, read the wire, HE RECOGNIZED THE OTHER LEAGUE. Rozelle's reply: TRUE, BUT IT TOOK 2,000 YEARS