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Clark, Georgia Legislator Julian Bond, Radical Columnist I.F. Stone, and Senators Muskie and Kennedy. Most speakers have pointedly avoided the usual traces of condescension and easy platitude. Subjects have ranged afield. Planned Parenthood Crusader Alan Guttmacher urged Smith graduates to practice fertility control; at Vassar, where most graduates' caps were bedecked with peace symbols, Writer Gloria Steinem spoke on Women's Liberation. But the dominant themes were war and the young...
...Harvard today conferred honorary degrees on 15 men and one woman, including James B. Reston, columnist and vice president of the New York Times, John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, and founder and director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center; and Cardinal Leon-Joseph Suenens of Belgium, world leader of the ecumenical movement in the Catholic Church...
Others chuckled at Haldeman and responded in kind-with humor. Ted Lewis, Washington columnist of the dis-Establishmentarian New York Daily News, wrote a parody of the Haldeman speech. Wrote Lewis: "It is hard to believe, but once a week, as we get it, a gaggle of presidential aides meets secretly on how best to sell whatever Nixon policy is in trouble at the time. This group may be called the Secret Six. [The] closed-door conferees on image problems don't end their huddle until there is agreement on what is known as 'the password...
...candidate for city council president, Mailer picked Jimmy Breslin, an ex-newspaperman who got so much practice writing fiction as a columnist for the late Herald Tribune that he had little trouble producing the bestselling comic-Mafia novel, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Mailer-Breslin was a ticket compounded of booze fulminate of mercury, and laughing gas It was too volatile to survive. There was also the problem of Mailer's vanity. Near the end of the campaign says Flaherty, Mailer encouraged some of his staff to shave off their beards as a gesture of loyalty...
...well as good news of U.S. space shots underscored the openness of American society. Hundreds of millions followed the suspsnse story on television, radio and in the press. Even sophisticates who have become ostentatiously blasé about space?if not downright hostile?succumbed. ."I watched the idiot box," wrote Columnist Max Lerner, "as if, by sheer will, I could mesmerize the TV reporter into telling us that all was well in the best of all possible spaceships, on the best of all possible moon probes. I couldn't and he didn...