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SPONGE & Jacks. To some extent, the same futility underlay a racial outburst in the East New York section of Brooklyn last week. The catalyst was a menacing group of white men called the Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything (SPONGE). Their goading picket line, set up in a neighborhood that has been traditionally explosive because of racial street-gang rivalries, was an irresistible target for Negro bystanders. Fighting broke out and scattered gunshots crackled through the area, killing an 11-year-old Negro boy as he crouched in terror on a street corner. Rooftop commandos hurled everything from...
...Defense Secretary McNamara [July 8] is a monstrous man, catalyst for the fusion of U.S. industrial and military might into an instrument designed for world hegemony and destined for moral and material perdition. Can't a voice be raised in support of the ideals on which this nation was founded and nurtured for almost two centuries...
...Left at Harvard, best typified by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), represents one fact of a new generation of students which began to arrive at the College after 1960. For them, the election of president Kennedy, with his image youth and energy, served as a catalyst. Simultaneously, the damper which the McCarthy investigations had placed on radical politics in the university began to lift, and soon the New Left generation made its presence known at Harvard...
...members all indicate their approval of clerical participation in social and political issues, Mumma spends by far the most time with students on such matters. "You might describe me as the ecclesiastical equivalent of a cocktail party host he says, "My role in pursuing these issues is as a catalyst--calling and talking to people--though I'm changed in the process also...
...slammed no doors. Though he was a registered Republican when he signed up with John Kennedy, he told a reporter last week: "I am no longer a Republican." Asked the newsman: "You mean you're a Democrat?" With a smile that indicated he might be his own best catalyst, Bundy replied: "I didn't say that...