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...violence on both sides that had marked last month's anti-Dean Rusk dustup at the New York Hilton was notably absent. Frustrated by competent cops, who refused to club them into martyrdom, the dissenters finally began to dissent among themselves. Even the presence of Lyndon Johnson at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Cardinal Spellman's funeral failed to unite them: protesters halfheartedly staked out the midtown cathedral, but soon dispersed. At Battery Park, moderates and militants clashed in a shoving match during a violent argument over whether to march on city hall...
Michel Scheinmann, playing number five for the absent John Whitbeck, stopped his strong Amherst opponent in four games. Bruce Weigand in the sixth slot and Peter Abrams in the ninth also...
...Democrats for the Fifth Republic" (De Gaulle had forbidden the use of his name "even in adjectival form" in any party title). As to the direction of the future, Pompidou and the other speakers left that vague, no doubt for fear of infringing on the prerogatives of the absent master of the Elysees. De Gaulle was, intoned Pompidou, much as if he were invoking the Holy Spirit, "here directing our policy with firmness and clairvoyance...
...hands are joining in Ramparts salutes these days. Conspicuously absent is Principal Stockholder and onetime Publisher Edward Keating, who was discovered "plotting" against the magazine last spring, as his detractors put it. The latest dropout is another major stockholder, Martin Peretz, 28, a Harvard lecturer in government who has contributed substantially to the magazine as well as to other New Left causes. He is also married to Anne Farnsworth, a Singer Sewing Machine heiress...
Last Year's talented but indifferent squad has given way to a group of positive thinkers. Led by captain Harry Jergesen, the new outfit has the elan vital so notably absent in last year's team but lacks its experience and speed...