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...campaign was followed by the "We Won't Go" advertisements, signed by almost 200 Harvard students. Students who had been unmoved by the questionable morality of the Vietnam War were stung into activism by the personal threat of the draft. SDS had found a popular alternative. In December, 1967, three Harvard SDS members initiated a twice-a-week counselling service, which has processed 15 students per week...
Nonetheless, it is the North Viet namese who are provoking the head-on clashes. What does it mean? Viet Nam veterans have been stung so often over the years by misplaced optimism that most have become cautious to a fault; yet some cautiously conjecture that the Communists' aggressiveness just might be the next step to negotiations (see ESSAY). "They're trying to pull off one last offensive and then talk peace," said one U.S. official. If that is so, however, the Viet Cong message to the United Nations last week gave no hint of it. More propaganda than...
...Stung by congressional criticism and aware that everyone had sadly underestimated the complexity of a soft lander, NASA, Hughes Aircraft (which designed and built Surveyor) and Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which directed the project, provided technical advice, and eventually controlled the flights) moved to rescue the floundering program. Increasingly certain that Surveyor's findings were a necessary preliminary to an Apollo lunar landing, NASA loosened the purse strings, enabling JPL to increase its Surveyor personnel from fewer than 100 to 500, Hughes from...
...Wolman's financial empire is on the verge of crumbling. Last week in Philadelphia. 40-year-old Wolman, onetime boy wonder of the construction industry and still the owner of 52% of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, admitted that he is indeed in big trouble. Stung by the morning Inquirer's speculating on his finances, Wolman called a press conference at the unusual hour of 8:30 a.m., presumably to give the more friendly afternoon Bulletin his side of the story. He announced that he lost $15.5 million recently, that bankruptcy "could come...
...West in 1965; of an apparent heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Finding "only a cynical exploitation of human opportunism and fear" in Poland, Tykocinski turned himself in to a U.S. Army sergeant in West Berlin, quitting his strategic post as head of the Polish Military Mission in West Berlin. Stung by his defection, a military tribunal in Warsaw last year tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death...