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...behind the move, University of California Political Scientist Robert A. Scalapino, has worried that too many of the dissenters' caricatured criticisms were debasing discussion of the war, and that noisy campus demonstrations were convincing the nation and world of unanimous dissent by U.S. intellectuals. Scalapino conveyed his feelings to 13 colleagues, including Columbia's A. Doak Barnett, Harvard's Oscar Handlin and Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Under the sponsorship of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute, a non-partisan educational organization, they got together for three days in October at Tuxedo, N.Y., and began...
Window for Complaints. The first results are now ready for viewing, and to celebrate the event, two-time Mayor John Collins (whose term expires Jan. 1) threw a housewarming for 1,500. City Hall is still five months from completion; yet Mayor Collins met with little dissent from local citizens when he boasted: "The verdict has already been rendered by all the architects who have seen it. This is the most exciting public building to be constructed in this country in this century...
...habitually in order to compensate for real or imagined inadequacies or to avoid real or imagined problems. This pernicious and insidious form of addiction is sometimes the first step in the direction of the more potent or physically addictive drugs. Its use is not so much a symbol of dissent in order to effectuate changes in our social system, but rather a manifestation of a selfish withdrawal from society...
...sabotaging government installations and passing out anti-Mao leaflets. Mao Tse-tung's men charge that in far-off Sinkiang, where Army Strongman Wang En-mao has never paid much heed to Peking, "Soviet, Indian and Mongolian agents have united with local traitors and nationalist elements" to stir dissent and create disturbances...
...faculty unanimously agreed that it is "unjust to use the Selective Service System as a means of punishing conscientious dissent...