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Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the HYRC, who earlier this week challenged the HLU to justify liberal support of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the basis of its civil rights position, charged that its reply consisted of "a shotgun blast at Eisenhower, Nixon, and myself, and completely evaded the issue...
...Haverhill thousands packed the square, but they were mostly school children. Above, on a bridge, was the railroad station, with microphones and a loud-speaker. A train whistle blew and the crowd cheered; it was the President's train. The five HLU'ers pushed their way to the front of the crowd and hoisted their placards. There were six signs, so they asked a small boy to hold one. The signs read: "Harvard's for Harry," "Because if Ike's Elected--," "Joe McCarthy for Attorney General," "Fred Hartley for Secretary of Labor," "Chiang Kai-Shek for Secretary of State," "John...
...train started and people left the square. "Look," said a teen-age girl pointing at the Joe McCarthy sign, "They're Republicans." "You know," said the first HLU'er, "these signs really don't make much sense. They were all right when Taft came, but they don't make much sense now." "Do you suppose Harry saw the signs. We were too near him," said the second. "I gave a policeman a note to give to Harry, asking him to our cocktail party. I asked him to give us his answer at Lawrence...
There was a traffic jam in the center of Lawrence. People seemed to flow down the streets to the train station, and the papers afterwards said there were 50,000 there. The HLU car was jammed between two others, and a policeman wouldn't let it pass. "The President's probably talking already," said the first HLU'er. "Let's get out of here, and go straight to Malden," said the second. "But he's going to give us his answer here," said the third. "And anyway this is his biggest speech. It will last half an hour...
...think he was right," said the first HLU'er. The signs had no meaning." "The President wouldn't have seen us anyway," said the second. "We were too far back." "Maybe we can bring them to Boston tonight," said the third. "I don't want to go to Boston tonight," said one of the others. "Well, then, we'll use them when Ike comes next week...