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STUDENT power now is confined to demands for granting more parietal hours, revising some course reading lists, and ending class ranking. The war, no doubt, will become more and more a focus. And one act could be the catalyst for hot opposition to Harvard traditionalism and paternalism...
From Time to the Boston Globe the moderate students received the publicity they wanted. One of Johnson's aides summoned one of the students advisors, and questioned him about the students plans. The White House, according to official sources, was worried that the group might become the catalyst for a more broad-based opposition...
Hayes said that one raid at 183 Columbia Street had smashed the headquarters of a group of Diggers known as Catalyst Ltd. In that raid, police seized drugs and 100 copies of a pamphiet telling other hippies how to make LSD. They also, Hayes claims, found evidence that Catalyst Ltd. Was distributing drugs throughout Massachusetts and neighboring states
Ringo, a thoroughly unpretentious fellow, is also the most innately comic temperament; he is the catalyst, and also the deflator, of the crew. Most mysterious of all-and possibly most important-is John, the creative mainspring, who has lately grown strangely brooding and withdrawn; he is more thoughtful and tough-minded than the others, reads voraciously. His telephone is usually answered by a tape-recorded voice, asking the caller to leave a message. But Lennon rarely returns calls, instead, so the story goes, plays the tapes over and over with maniacal glee...
...audit (in terms of proposals accepted) was the first and most highly-publicized one, the Government Department audit. That audit combined hard-working subcommittee members with a cooperative department chairman, and the spill-over from that success has set the tone for the whole program. "It acted as a catalyst for other departments," Riesman has noted; he feels that it helps a reform-minded Faculty member to be able to say authoritatively that "the students want this." Chalmers too thinks that the audits have been the HPC's most valuable contribution. "They make people on both sides explain their position...