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...mail and some have been reached by phone, but to many canvassers the large number of "NA"s means that their work is largely insignificant. And the voting lists from which the names and addresses have been drawn have often been unreliable. Voters have moved, houses have been torn down, people have changed party affiliation. It is not unusual for a volunteer to come back with 40 cards, 25 of which are marked. "NA," ten "moved," and the remaining five leaning toward Johnson or undecided. One canvasser said that he had been given 25 cards all at the same address...
...their vital yet vulnerable position in the Southern power structure can not be a neutral one. Southern black colleges will have to come to grips with this question and take a posture more in line with contemporary black student thoughts and concerns. Without this change, the schools will be torn internally, with students and administrators working at cross purposes...
...time those kids were taught a lesson. At the opposite pole one professor proclaimed that if they were thrown out, he went too, while many others vigorously supported the students' actions without making them their own. One group was terribly concerned that the University family would be torn apart on the issue and that the students and their faculty would end up more as antagonists than as pupils and teachers in the finest sense of both of those words. After all the meetings and all the behind-the-scenes phone calls, out of such violently opposing opinions, came a bland...
...Harvard Draft Project now has an office in Mem Hall and a University extension telephone. What it lacks is a coherent sense of direction. Its main organizing arm--the Harvard Draft Union--has been torn by factional struggles among SDS, hard-core resistance advocates, and "apoliticals...
Shame of the Living. Many of the 75 hibakusha whom Lifton interviewed told of being torn between the gladness of survival and the pain of being alive because someone else was dead. In many cases, hibakusha survived because they ignored those in need...