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...politics. This need for involvement in the decision-making process underlies every program of the New Left, especially their protest against the Selective Service System. As Barry McGuire phrased it in his protest song, "The Eve of Destruction," "You're old enough to kill, but not for voting." Paul Booth, the national secretary of SDS, complained to a Harvard audience last October that "the decision to take up 45,000 people a month is not a decision that any of the draft-age people participated...
...establish new perpectives, and then, often as not, dissolve. So firmly does Gavras believe in using the camera to express emotion that he will not be stopped by mere logic or physical limitations; to express nervous alertness he even pans when he and a character are sharing a phone booth...
...Students for a Democratic Society, is their most effective written protest to date. The publication, which was distributed to students on their way to Saturday's draft deferment exam, is a shocking, informative, documented presentation of the SDS position on the Vietnamese war, posed in question answer form. Paul Booth, National Secretary of SDS and one of the authors of the exam, said when he was last at Harvard, that SDS's tactics were to hit people in the vitals; by handing out the exam while students waited in line to be finger-printed, he did just that...
...Sympathy. Thousands of new Somebodies had to overcome the barrier of illiteracy. Many learned to identify the names of the candidates they favored by staring for hours at crayon-lettered flash cards prepared by civil rights workers. Despite an election regulation that allowed just five minutes in the voting booth, some Negro novices puzzled and pondered over the mysteries of the ballot for as long as half an hour. Encouragingly-if unexpectedly-sympathetic white officials usually gave them all the time they needed, even helped confused illiterates by reading aloud the candidates' names and marking ballots when voters recognized...
...trust, professors have been leaping down from their ivory towers to grapple with the earthly day-to-day problems of government and business. Their expertise is suddenly in demand to combat urban blight in Boston, famine in Bombay. "At any one given time," quips University of Chicago Dean Wayne Booth, "a first-class university has at least 10% of its professors in airplanes." Federal money devoted to research projects has multiplied 200 times since 1940, from $74 million to about $15 billion annually...