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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...areas related to housing. Much of this has come from the work of the Task Force on the Housing Crisis which I called together in early April. A special committee of that Task Force is now at work developing a specific implementation plan for the 1500 units of various types of publicly subsidized housing now allocated to the City, and in planning for new applications for more such units...
...Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), subpoenaed information on student militants from various colleges. In the course of its hearings on SDS, the McClellan Committee proudly revealed a list of leading figures in SDS, most of whom had already been well-publicized by the media of their respective areas. The McClellan Committee has since moved on to an investigation of the Black Panthers and other black militants...
...Class of 1969 is a famous class because it feels passionately about things, wants to rid the world of evil, etc. We hate the famous War in Vietnam, and we take various kinds of dope, and most of all we are full of energy and idealism. Yes. Of course, at times our zeal is misdirected (as, alas, was Hitler's). At times, we want things too fast, too much (this being a product of our childhood, of course, since our parents grew up in the depression, then made it, then wanted to give us all the advantages, etc.) But, alas...
...opportunity to vote down the strike or against realizing one of the "demands"--as they were affectionately termed by their sponsors. Here was Athenian democracy minus such frills as property requirements, slavery, and demagogues with anything going for them. The meeting ended up endorsing the least compelling of the various mawkish policies thrown before it, and by implication the most awkward of the various would-be leaders who presented themselves for consideration. I knew then and there Harvard Stadium was not going to be the answer...
...weeks ago, University Hall was filled with people who took on various combinations of these reasons. They were all of them serious people, those who were there for the power and those who were there for the aesthetic alike were serious. Romanticism is serious business...