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...this organization," explains Coffin, "is not so much to push for a specific new policy as to clarify the fundamental differences of present policy. It is a program with a large educational content and a minimum of direct action. What we are seeking to do is reach the widest segment of the public as possible...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: William Sloane Coffin, Jr. | 10/5/1965 | See Source »

Beneath the Chimera. For Ho, the confrontation with the U.S. over South Viet Nam is the crowning act of a long life dedicated to subversion. His personal Ho Chi Minh trail has led him through the widest range of revolutionary activity experienced by any living Red leader. En route, he shed identities like snakeskins, metamorphosing from cabin boy to pastry cook, from poet to guerrilla leader, from Parisian photo retoucher to pseudo-Buddhist monk. His name-changes alone would fill an address book (some 20 have been pinned down, ranging from Nguyen "the Victorious" to "Old Chap" Wang). But beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Jungle Marxist | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...mile Adams Cup regatta on Annapolis' Severn River, they finished 5½ lengths ahead of Navy and 9½ lengths in front of Pennsylvania. The 2,000-meter Eastern Sprints on Worcester's Lake Quinsigamond were a little closer: Harvard walloped undefeated Cornell by 2½ lengths-widest margin in the Sprint's 20-year history. "Even seeing doesn't help," mutters Princeton Coach Dutch Schoch. "You still don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crew: Think. Feel. Win. | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

Harvard's first four golfers, Brian McGuinn. Spoon Campen, Jim Buchanan, and Nike Millis, all won impressively, though Campen had to scramble a bit after being three down at the 10th hole. Buchanan won by the widest margin, 5 and 4, and shot the lowest round, a two-over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Squeeze Past Brown, 4-3; 'Top Seeds' Win | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Aimed at the Barricades. As Selma's angry impatience exploded, Lyndon Johnson realized that the time was ripe to go after the widest possible support for his bill. Key figures in the bipartisan drafting were Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Enforcing the 15th | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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