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After the success of Berkeley's radical students, a Cambridge City Council candidate took out an ad before the Cambridge elections cautioning the city's residents, "Could Cambridge be another Berkeley [sic]? Don't wait to find out! Restore Cambridge and its government to its residents, not its visitors." That candidate may have had something to fear from a student bloc like that one four years ago in Berkeley; he has little to fear, however, from the student vote today in Cambridge. Students here, for reasons that extend far beyond voting restrictions, have never been a major force in this...
...autographs, those most in demand are by Lincoln, Washington and John F. Kennedy. Almost any signed Lincoln document is worth at least $2,000; Abe's reply to a girl who had urged him to grow whiskers - "Do you not think people would call it a silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?"_sold for $20,000. A 1785 letter from Washington in which he refused "pecuniary reward" for his services to the young country fetched $37,000 in 1973, an alltime record for a presidential letter. The highest price ever bid for a letter...
...Good, her roommate and another member of the Manson "family," Fromme issued a statement to the press two months ago equating Ford with Richard Nixon, the man whom the clan has always blamed as the source of its troubles with the law. Declared the release: "If Nixson's [sic] reality wearing a new face [i.e., Ford] continues to run this country against the law, your homes will be bloodier than the Tate-LaBianca houses and My Lai put together...
...Help Eagle Bay." They are a group of "native Americans, Mohawk primarily," who have taken over a former girls camp in New York and kicked all the motel owners out. "They have the right to this land. They will appeal to the United Nations and the International Coort |sic| if necessary." In their pamphlet they fall to elucidate their stand on busing...
Also, The Real Paper claims "Brecht's [sic] contemporary classic, Waiting for Godot," is being presented at some place called the Arts Center in the Pinebank in Jamicaway. I suspect neither exist, but you never know...