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Horrendous Results. Little of Warren's argument impressed Justice John Marshall Harlan, who was joined by Byron White, Potter Stewart and Tom Clark in dissent. Reddening with anger and pounding his fist on the desk before him, Harlan accused the majority of peddling "poor constitutional law," which promised "harmful consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops...
Police disperse pickets when Maxwell Taylor visits Lowell House and arrest four Harvard students during an unsuccessful sit-in at the Boston Army Base. Twenty-three professors participate in a "speak-out" designed to keep the spirit of dissent alive. Two thousand dissenters march in Boston Common...
...Dissent-Proof. The plan was to submit the report to the 2,300 conference participants, not for their formal approval-there was to be no voting-but only for discussion by twelve working groups. A dissent-proof plan, it seemed. But not quite. First, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNICK) boycotted the conference. Then the Congress of Racial Equality, grown more militant under new leaders, demanded that the conferees frame their own report. CORE National Director Floyd McKissick wanted a resolution demanding U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, derided the conference as "rigged" by the Administration...
There was plenty of other dissent. Many delegates were dissatisfied with the lack of specific spending proposals and timetables in the council report. Ruth Turner, a CORE official from Cleveland, wanted a minimum of $8 billion for housing alone. Bill Russell, the professional basketball player, criticized big business for being seen little and heard less at the conference. "What good is education without jobs?" Russell said. "It is big business corporations that control good jobs." Five of the panels urged that the pending civil rights bill on juries and housing be broadened. Others proposed a federal program to upgrade local...
...contrast between New Left politics at Harvard and Berkeley is probably best explained by an article by Reginald E. Zelnick in the May-June issue of Dissent. Zelnick finds Berkeley a university without status compared to Eastern Ivy schools. Students freshly-arrived at Berkeley find little difference between the college and that high-school. The Berkeley student feels immediately equal to his university; entering Harvard students are almost certain to be awed. The traditions of Harvard, in effect, secure its tranquility...