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...best example of the unconventional approach in action is in Columbus, Ohio. A humane and intelligent Lutheran minister, Rev. Leopold Bernhard, helped set up a "Neighborhood Corporation" in Columbus's ghetto with the help of Washington writer Milton Kotler. The Corporation is, in fact, little more than a simple legal line drawn around a neighborhood of 8,000 people. (Any good lawyer can set one up in a few hours--if a community so wishes...
...least popular resolution was sponsored by Fairbank and Professor I. Milton Sachs of Brandeis. Their position, the most "hawkish" of the four, called upon the U.S. to "de-emphasize bombing and reliance on firepower in general, and to greatly and rapidly increase our support of political and social programs through military 'clear and hold' operations rather than 'search and destroy' missions...
SACHS made an impassioned speech in favor of his resolution, and later echoed even more passionately his earlier charges of "conspiracy." He protested the "ungentlemanly" hissing from the audience, and to emphasize his disapproval, stormed out of the meeting. Fairbank commented, "it seems that Milton got a bit wrought...
...Asian scholars have gotten together to express their political views in a meeting instead of in private. We should have had such a meeting four years ago. We've had one now." The other activists agree with him. One of them said: "In the past it's been the Milton Sachses and those who signed the Tuxedo Statement who have spoken for Asian scholars. We're changing all that. We're showing that we can get 'wrought up' too, but in a new direction...
...does too. From the witty random notes at the beginning to the theater, book and movie reviews at the end, the publication is sharply written, crisply edited Tom Wolfe examines the confusion of accents in the city and how they unfailingly give away the speaker's social status. Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder visit "one of the last remaining Old World markers" under the elevated in East Harlem. Gloria Steinem re-creates the years that Ho Chi Minh spent in New York, when he worked as a waiter and laundryman. And a freelance reviewer, Clare Boothe Luce, discovers that...