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...then, the powers that be were happy with our involvement in Vietnam, too. It took outsiders--beginning with college students--to turn the tide against that war. We must show the nation that we will make the same sacrifices again--and exact the same price of social unrest, if need be. If America's leaders did not learn their lesson in Vietnam, then the committed and concerned in this country will have to teach it to them again. Thursday's march is a beginning, and all of Harvard should be there...
...Britain's socialists think they have all the answers to their nation's economic problems [Feb. 16]. By throwing out Margaret Thatcher, they will be losing their last real hope. Would the unemployment, inflation and unrest really disappear if Thatcher left, or would it stay and flourish under Karl Marx...
...earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed in his subject that he named his Siamese cats Watson and Crick. He also became disheartened by public events-the draining agony over the war in Viet Nam, assassinations, racial unrest. "I thought our political system was falling apart. I was ready to go somewhere else and live...
WITHIN DAYS OF the decision of Joseph McNeil, Izell Blair. Franklin McCain and David Richmond to remain at that lunch counter, the unrest had spread. Across the South, people were sitting-in and standing outside, carrying signs and bearing bruises. The outburst of student activism--on a scale not seen since in the South--was uncoordinated and spontaneous; we know of many of the protests only because there happened to be newsmen in the area. The demonstrations were not, for the most part, tremendously effective, but they were tremendously exhilarating. And obviously the start of something bigger...
...ineffectual Jozef Pinkowski three days earlier at a stormy meeting of the Communist Party's 140-member Central Committee. He thus became the only military man to head a Soviet-bloc government. More important, his accession marked the fourth major leadership shake-up since the eruption of labor unrest last summer and, in the opinion of many fretful Poles and foreigners alike, perhaps the last opportunity for the Warsaw authorities to restore order peacefully...