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...same day, McCarthy sent a telegram to Nathan Pusey, Harvard's president of 23 days, urging him to fire Wendell Furry, an associate professor of Physics here who had been a Communist Party member from 1938 to 1947. Furry had angered the Senator by refusing to answer several questions relating to his past Communist involvement before the Senate subcommittee which McCarthy chaired...
...face shot away when a land mine exploded, and that the doctors in the Army surgical unit who tried to operate on the poor wounded mass of red and stinking meat were themselves sickened at the sight of such disfigurement. So they put him on ice, sent a telegram home, and shipped him to the top floor of the building in which he now lies, so that everything could be put back together again for the benefit of the De Molays. And Anthony Blake returns home to St. Louis...
Worst Light. The White House took the unusual step of replying to the charges. The vehicle was a telegram from Presidential Consultant Leonard Garment, Nixon's chief liaison with civil rights groups. Garment termed Spottswood's attack "unfair and disheartening," and said that it "misrepresents" the Administration's record. "It is one thing to criticize, to give voice to deeply felt concerns," the telegram said. "But it is an entirely different thing to search out ways to portray the actions of this Administration in the worst possible light, to rally every fear and reinforce every anxiety. This...
...secret police, when the hands that guide our collective destiny reach to kill the screams of the alarm clock and grope for the girl (already fled), at that hour Habbakuk is pushing aside the rind of his grapefruit, sipping the dregs of his coffee, and rereading the telegram that sends him flying to New York by cocktail time, where he must perforce plug in his connections, drop his names, jiggle through a dance or two till he's in a position to float Valerie Corday onstage and steal away, leaving her twirling and whirling in a canned atmosphere...
Last year, two radical candidates- author Norman Mailer and Henry Norr '68, a member of SDS, ran for Overseer using the petition route. Despite a widely publicized campaign, including a telegram from Mailer to President Pusey on the morning of the April 10 police raid on University Hall, both were defeated by conventional nominees...