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...fullback the new man is Gary Strandemo. Like Stargel, senior Strandemo saw four minutes of action last year, a substantial amount. But like Stargel too, he will have a tough time replacing his predecessor Tom Choquette...
Students for a Democratic Society--SDS has an interesting background at Harvard. Its predecessor, TOCSIN, was vital in the early 1960's at Harvard; it was intellectually oriented and lasted as long as ban-the-bomb was an issue, but the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty wiped out TOCSIN's importance. In 1964, the old TOCSIN remnants and several new groups combined to fill the vacuum for civil rights and peace activities. The TOCSIN tradition was one of sophisticated analysis and objectivity, but in the past year there have been trends both towards more emotionally satisfying tactics of confrontation and towards...
...semiautomatic carbine across state lines on flights to and from New Orleans while under indictment in Maryland for inciting a riot. On the latest charge he faces a maximum of five years in the penitentiary and a $2,000 fine. Meanwhile, Stokely Carmichael, Brown's predecessor as chairman of S.N.C.C. was reported en route from Havana to Hanoi to inspect American "atrocities...
Only three weeks ago, Webster's predecessor, Peter Adams, agreed to take the island back into the federation, but his constituents balked and deposed him. Webster insists that he has the guns and money to go it alone. And the West Indies are alive with rumors that he is being besieged with offers of help from underworld types anxious to establish a gambling haven, land developers, and a Greek shipping magnate eager to fly the Anguillan flag (two mermaids holding a seashell, a spear and an olive leaf) as a cost-cutting flag of convenience. Evidence to back...
...President Kennedy planned a tax cut in 1963 to stimulate a sluggish economy, he coupled his proposal with various tax-reform measures. It was a big mistake; Congress, the Executive, and lobbyists spent months haggling over the measure. President Johnson, who must have learned from the experience of his predecessor, is currently planning to propose tax reforms independently of his proposal for an income tax surcharge...