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This switch has made it difficult for the Republican candidate, Missouri Attorney General John Danforth, to get his hooks into Symington. Danforth is a liberal and is regarded as the best Republican vote getter in the state. About the strongest criticism he has of Symington, however, is that he failed to oppose the war early enough. Danforth is running an expensive (he is heir to the Ralston Purina cereal fortune) and active campaign, but without issues it has been a uphill fight. It will be a major upset if he unseats Symington...
Many, of course, cling as grimly as ever to integration, particularly in the South, where it has brought fundamental changes. "Naw, we're not gonna give up," said an angry black mechanic working on a Buick in a Gray, Ga., garage. He told TIME Correspondent Kenneth Danforth: "If we had had integrated schools just ten years ago, I'd be driving this Riviera instead of bent over the son of a bitch." In Fayette, Miss., black Mayor Charles Evers found uses for the new adversity. "Black people can fight better when they are pressured...
...Whitehead program, established in 1967 for five years, is funded by a $1 million grant from the Danforth Foundation. The newly appointed Fellows will receive funds from the University and will have the use of Harvard facilities during their year of independent study...
TIME Correspondent Ken Danforth interviewed Calley before the Army announced that the lieutenant would be court-martialed on charges of premeditated murder. Danforth saw him again at Fort Benning last week, but this time was not allowed to speak to him. "He could communicate only with a gesture of recognition," Danforth reports. "He shuffled papers nervously, trying to look busy at his practically empty desk. Under the circumstances, he seemed reasonably cheerful." Calley is attached to the staff of the deputy post commander, Colonel Talton Long, designing plans for the colonel's parking lot and working on an infantry museum...
...Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education (MACE) together with the Boston School Committee and the Danforth Foundation, is sponsoring the study, which is the first of its kind in nearly 25 years...