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...their graduation has not evoked a particularly festive response. Some are down at the mouth because of the draft; others are simply at a loss as to what to do with themselves. One would imagine that after four arduous years of travaille the end of the academic moratorium would be greeted with a sense of rejoicing, relief, and ven liberation. Instead, I have become increasingly impressed with a muggy mood of despondence which hovers over this year's celebrations like a lazy mosquito: annoying, menacing, frustrating, and depressing...
...assassination clamped an immediate moratorium on campaigning, but there was no end to the speculation about what Robert Kennedy's death would mean to the future of the presidential contest. The first effect was confusion, accompanied by a Babel of rumors. One had it that the U.S. Supreme Court would study the constitutionality of simply postponing the election until 1970. Another predicted that Hubert Humphrey would withdraw from the race in favor of Ted Kennedy. Yet another said that Lyndon Johnson might plunge back into the race. All were remote possibilities at best...
...their graduation has no evoked a particularly festive response. Some are down at the mouth because of the draft; other are simply t a loss as to what to do with themselves. One would imagine that after fourarduous years of travaille the end of the academic moratorium would be greeted with a sense of rejoicing, relief, and eve liberation. Instead, I have become increasingly impressed with a muggy mood of despondence which hovers over this year's celebrations like a lazy mosquito: annoying, menacing, frustration, and depressing...
Crisis Sunday. In Boston, Jewish philanthropies donated buildings valued at $1,250,000 for a community and cultural center in the Roxbury slum. In Washington, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle announced a moratorium on all new Roman Catholic church building and improvements so that funds would be freed to "help relieve the chronic causes of poverty in our midst." In Portland, Ore., the Council of Churches designated May 5 "Summer Crisis Sunday," when each congregation will be asked to provide decent jobs for slum dwellers and help provide support for summer programs...
Strongest Weapon. In keeping with that new-found restraint, Nixon urged a moratorium on criticism of U.S. foreign policy by all candidates during the period of negotiation before talks on a Viet Nam settlement. Chiding Eugene McCarthy for his demands that Dean Rusk resign, Nixon added: "The one man who can do anything about peace is Lyndon Johnson, and I'm not going to do anything to undercut him." Yet Nixon made it clear that division within the Democratic Party is one of his strongest weapons. Flying on to Michigan, where he conferred with Governor George Romney (but came...