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...Harvard Yard rally yesterday afternoon and a teach-in at M.I.T. last night began local participation in a nation-wide, week-long protest against President Johnson's Vietnam policy and the recent draft increases...
Park's warning was in response to week-long clashes between the police and student mobs numbering as many as 10,000. With more than 400 cops nursing wounds and bruises, Park declared garrison law and rushed the front-line 6th Division into the capital city of Seoul. Several hours before he spoke, soldiers stormed the University of Korea campus, cracked the heads of rock-throwing students, routed others from classrooms and a cafeteria with tear-gas grenades. Sobbed a coed: "How can they do this? How can they treat students on campus like enemy soldiers...
Juju itself is not on trial. Even the most sophisticated Nigerians carry amulets to ward off evil spells. Juju shrines dot roadsides throughout the country, and in 1960, to ensure good weather for week-long independence ceremonies, the Oba of Lagos reportedly hired witch doctors to drive away rain. Even the government counsel testified to the efficacy of juju potions, assured Justice Alexander that, properly treated, the flesh was impenetrable to a sharp whack from a machete...
...York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
...technicians working at Gamal Abdel Nasser's jet airplane factory outside Cairo to decide to drive 300 miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus Böhm, and his wife Gudrun. They took two Volkswagens, a sedan and a Micro Bus, and Gudrun, who took along her camera, snapped the others clowning about before they all left...