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...upbringing as non-racist, conservative, Southern Repubilcan. Shaking his head in disbelief of his own past political views, he admits that had he been of age he probably would have voted for Nixon in 1960. "But I changed when I came to Harvard," Sloan continues with more than a trace of drawl, "and I realized when I heard that Kennedy had been assassinated that I'd become a somewhat contankerous, old-fashioned liberal.... I liked Kennedy's style, he seemed to stand for a kind of rational liberalism which I felt very comfortable with...
...Haitian people who have spurned those who strutted in the capital and stole their taxes, from Dessaline's time to the present. The Haitians continue through all this to be the most creative, outgoing, generous and ebullient people in the Caribbean; and the poorest-but without a trace of self-pity, xenophobia, or racial arrogance...
...loss caused by such relatively hard-to-trace misuse amounts to an estimated $50 million a year, and the average is growing rapidly. Last week police in Manhattan were busy wrapping up a gang that had defrauded Diners Club of at least $350,000. The gang, which had Mafia links, had stolen hundreds of blank Diners Club cards, impressed legitimate cardholders' names on them, and sold them to various underworld figures complete with such forged subsidiary identification as driver's licenses.* Gang members then traveled, ate, and charged lavishly, using the cards. Even when they are not liable...
...Organization of Latin American Solidarity is dedicated to severing root and branch every trace of United States domination in the hemisphere--political, economic and cultural. The men who met in Havana last summer called it the liberation of Latin America from Yankee imperialism, and the program they finally wound up with was just as blunt and fiery as the language they used...
...frightened youngsters momentarily holding hands to stop what I still think is part of the real threat to intellectual freedom, but a potentially totalitarian thrust that deserved exemplary punishment. At the same time, shared liberal sentiments, together with a network of personal friendships that only a Namier could trace out, made it possible for private debate to continue. In private conversations some faculty members could say to old friends with very different views that the students who took part in the demonstration really deserved to be placed on an honor roll instead of being punished. These networks of personal connections...