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Citing the failure of Senator Dirksen's amendment to win Congressional approval this year, Cox said that the decisions have obtained wide-spread acceptance and legislative response...
Weiner said that he hoped to enlist the support of the Harvard Young Republicans, SDS, and CRCC for the campaign. He claimed that wide-spread efforts could bring as many as 3000 letters flooding into Washington...
Howard Zinn, associate professor of Government at B.U., who also signed the letter, said that the huge mandate given Johnson in the recent election should "make it clear that he can proceed without fear" in pushing the Civil Rights movement. There is a wide-spread apprehension that Johnson will ignore the Challenge in an effort to preserve peace in the Congressional ranks...
...world situation, he wryly noted that "the good guys can be more of a headache than the bad gays." He singled out France, in addition to the Soviet Union, as a country in which the Warren Commission report--"the most widely distributed document in the history of the United States"--has met with wide-spread disbelief...
Fischer especially expressed concern at the wide-spread feeling among young American intellectuals "of helplessness and of alienation from the dominant American community." He insisted that American problems are not "insuperable," but that they must merely be tackled "with ingenuity and persistence...