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...However, if they merely replay the romantic and potentially tragic script of the march on the Pentagon, they will impair not only the cause they hope to represent, but the cherished American tradition of dissent as well. "The whole thing ended so meanly," Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz said almost sadly before the Yale Political Union. "There must be a great many people who feel they were discredited by a few who distorted dissent into obscenity...
...faculty is regarded by many as the finest in the U.S. More than 40,000 lawyers have studied there, including such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter. Among today's leaders, the school has produced Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Yale President Kingman Brewster and Sociologist David Riesman. The quality is matched by quantity. Harvard Law has prepared fully one-fourth of all U.S. law professors, and its 21,000 living graduates constitute one-sixth of the lawyers in the country...
Appropriations for the poverty program seemed more vulnerable than ever, although Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz said that out of 35,000 youths taking job training in cities hit by riots, only 20 had been arrested. Of the 12,000 students in Office of Economic Opportunity programs in the affected cities, according to Sargent Shriver, only six had been arrested. Senator Edward Brooke pointed out what everyone...
...with his family for a weekend in the West Virginia mountains, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, 55, paused along the Cacapon River, fell into conversation with Douglas Dolan, a postmaster who owns property there. Suddenly a shout went up that two of Dolan's nieces, Deborah, 12, and Nancy, 21, were being swept downstream by the rain-swollen current. The Secretary stripped to his shorts, plunged into the river, overtook the girls and held them steady in the swirling water until a motorboat could get to them. "I was about to go under for the last time," said Debbie...
...fell to Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz to produce a salable euphemism. With bureaucratic finesse, he described the new plan as "mediation to finality." The term did not mollify A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who promised "vigorous" opposition...