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...case, he emphasized, would SDS do anything calculated to turn the meeting into another "McNamara situation." If SDS thought that the meeting in practice failed to meet its principles, then it would try to re-direct the meeting its way, and, as a last resort, publicly announce the meeting a "failure" and walk out en masse...
...real blow was Watts. It threw the civil-rights movement entirely off balance. Until then, theirs had been the aggrieved, the just, the righteous cause. In the South and old game had been going on with a new rule, imperfectly understood by whites, that the first side to resort to violence--lost Now in the North the Negroes had resorted to violence, in a wild destructive explosion that shattered, probably forever, the image of nonviolent suffering. And within hours of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. The same new rule applied. The civil-rights movement could not explain Watts...
When Mrs. Post attends a party, Palm Beach does little but prepare for the event weeks in advance. Last week, resplendent in a white and silver gown trimmed in turquoise, she opened the resort's charity-ball season by attending the Red Cross's 1967 international gala. Among her guests were no fewer than ten of Washington's liveliest or most sought-after diplomatic couples, including the ambassadors (and their wives) of India, Japan, France and Morocco...
Frugging till Dawn. Nowhere is the Post hospitality more exquisite than at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach. "The only trouble with Palm Beach," cracked White House Aide Robert Kintner, "is that by the time you can afford it, you're too old to enjoy it." The resort enjoyed a considerable revival with the younger international set when John F. Kennedy, son of longtime winter residents, spent a couple of Christmas vacations 'there as President. Now younger socialites seek the more informal social life of Barbados, Hobe Sound, Nassau or Acapulco. Palm Beach is primarily a playground...
Among the senior members of the President's personal staff, the primus inter pares for more than two years has been Bill Moyers. Last week Moyers, 32, was in Uruguay on one of his last assignments, scouting the resort city of Punta del Este as a possible site for April's hemispheric summit meeting. Next week he departs to become publisher of Long Island's daily Newsday. Though Lyndon Johnson has peevishly taken to telling visitors that the capital fairly teems with equally bright young men, he would have to admit that his protege's departure...