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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DONE, CONQUERING HEROES! MCCARTHY v. NIXON IN NOVEMBER. In the Sen ate, Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, who shares McCarthy's doubts about the war in Viet Nam, and several colleagues wore McCarthy buttons-but on the inside of their lapels...
...trust and confidence not given to ordinary members of society," its very existence testifies that Senators can be, and have been, molded from crumbly clay. A product of more than two years of intermittent work (interrupted by necessity of investigating unsavory charges against Dodd and Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long), the Senate code, drawn up under the auspices of Mississippi's John Stennis, had at least one easily discernible merit: it was much more sin ewy than a bare-bones code dropped almost casually into the House of Representatives' hopper a day earlier...
...trading record. Where gold could be bought directly, mob scenes erupted and the price soared. Ten times the usual number of buyers jammed the gold pit in the cellar of the Paris Bourse, and fist fights broke out as the price on one day rose to $44.36 an ounce v. the official price of $35. In Hong Kong, fran tic trading drove the price up to $40.71, and around the world investors and banks bought gold certificates and gold stocks. Many refused to accept the U.S. dollar in payment...
...emotional moments here, to a white professor's question as to what academics can do: 'If your ranks can grow and mine can grow, we can affect a rapprochement and try to end this mess." It is indeed unfortunate that there aren't, as one student said, more Charles V. Hamilton's around. His very presence here is a salient indication of the black leadership void which exists in academia as in politics...
...awareness of the crisis to which he spoke--but without the tortured rhetoric of frustration which usually accompanies it--Hamilton has provided crucial and timely answers. But the tension between the rhetoric and the reality--the need for translation of ideas into answers--weighs heavily even on a Charles V. Hamilton. As he said in his last meeting: "I'm tired of just talking...