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...earth"? Let remembrance be our watchword, and our dead...
...holding up Administration bills. He charged that it was controlled by "big spenders" and "bitter men" who have "forfeited their mandate" to represent the workingman. Nixon issued a 20-page "call for cooperation" from the Congress, gently chiding the Hill for its failure to act on his programs. The watchword of his Administration, he insisted, was still "reform." "In a mood of nostalgia and partisanship," he said, "Congress has too much devoted its energies to tinkering with programs of the past while ignoring the realities of the present. What is at stake is the good repute of American Government...
...different in Guatemala. Most of the people are sympathetic to the guerrillas, but are very threatened by the aura of death. Which invites Latin American revolutionaries to make the most terrible choice-to presume to wage war on a genocidal enemy. The latest Tupamaro (urban guerrillas of Uruguay) watchword lays it out-"If there isn't a homeland for all, there won't be a homeland for anybody." ( Granma, Havana, Oct. 18, 1970, "Tupamaros Interview" reprinted in NUC (New University Conference) Papers ?? t, Chicago...
...been scheduled. The rout gave more confidence to the new players. But the next week Columbia and its super star quarterback Marty Domres took some wind out of the new Crimson sails. The skeptics reappeared as Harvard won by only one touchdown, 21-14. Sloppy football was the pundits' watchword and again Big Hole appeared in the lineup. But the pundits didn't know how lasting the Holy Cross half-time magic was and were caught by surprise as Harvard downed Cornell 10-0 and Dartmouth 22-7 in successive weeks...
...watchword is freedom. "Nobody gives a good goddam what you read, think, eat, wear, smoke, drink or sleep with," says Erich Wise, a junior from Los Angeles, "just so long as you don't hurt anybody." Ten years ago, student liberals denounced the "final clubs," Harvard's version of fraternities, for excluding Jews, Negroes and political militants. Today the clubs are viewed with more tolerance, partly because they are no longer exclusive. Toby Campion, a junior on probation for participating in a recent anti-ROTC demonstration, is a member of Porcellian; Ernie Wilson, a black student leader from...