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Further and perhaps most important, deciding what to do cannot be done by Harvard, or some part of Harvard, acting unilaterally. In every area to which this committee has turned its attention, there are already programs underway, organizations formed, spokesmen selected, conflicts apparent. Just as 'the" university does not exist, so 'the" community does not exist. We impinge upon many communities and some of them--perhaps most--are deeply suspicious of Harvard's intentions and capacities. No master plan for community development can or should be devised by Harvard alone, because any action requires first to work out, carefully...
Both Johnson and Nixon, of course, are aware of the cruel fact that since the parley with the North Vietnamese got underway last May, some 8,000 Americans and many times that number of South and North Vietnamese have died in the war. Both also know that, at least in the opening weeks, the Paris conferees can be expected to bombard each other with their favorite propaganda themes. Some pessimists in Washington, as a matter of fact, expect no major progress before midsummer. The bargaining, as Bunker put it in Saigon, will be "long, tough, complex and arduous...
...piece underway-the piece finished conceptually...
When Wallace got to the Holiday Inn at Harrisburg, a $25 dollar-a-plate fund-raising dinner was just getting underway. The diners here, like the crowd which had welcomed him at Hershey a few hours before, were a very different group from the people who had turned out to see Wallace shortly before in New York and Trenton. Those people were predominantly blue-collar workers and their children. But in Harrisburg Wallace's supporters were of the older right-wing breed--used-car salesmen, small businessmen and farmers who used to be Republicans, not Democrats...
...Buhl said that the construction underway for the fourth house has a great deal to do with the girls' moving out. "Yesterday we got a new delight--a pile driver," she said. Noise and dust make girls unwilling to leave their windows open, yet the heat makes a closed room oppressive, she added...