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Representatives of the Washtenaw Country, Mich. Coalition Against Apartheid and the University of Michigan Faculty Against Apartheid this week sent a telegram to The Harvard Crimson expressing their support of "those fasting for divestment...
...Suransky, a Michigan lecturer who sent the telegram, said in an interview yesterday that if Harvard were to divest, it "would send a signal throughout the entire university system...
When informed of the telegram. Alan I. Jackson '84, one of the students who fasted said. "Let's hope Harvard follows the example of University of Michigan and makes the correct moral choice...
...1920s, Ben Hecht received a telegram from Herman Mankiewicz, a friend and fellow writer who had made a pioneering trek from New York to Hollywood. Hecht was firmly advised to do likewise: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around...
...young Vice President flees to an Adirondack mountaintop: "The clouds parted unexpectedly, sunshine poured down on his head, and for a few moments a world of trees and mountains and sparkling water lay all around him . . . below a ranger was approaching, running, clutching the yellow slip of a telegram. Instinctively, he knew the message the man was bringing...