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...President's words were almost a paraphrase of a statement issued last week by the Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Viet Nam, a centrist group that includes former Senator Paul Douglas and ex-Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman. Noting that Ho Chi Minh considers negotiations "another weapons system," the committee cautioned that "impatience may be our deadliest enemy...
...Students for a Democratic Society, declared Columbia Provost David B. Truman last week, were deliberately "seeking a confrontation with the university." Thus Truman seemed to support the widespread notion that the wave of recent demonstrations and strikes at Columbia were all part of a conscious conspiracy. That is unlikely. S.D.S., which has played an active role in most of the U.S. campus uprisings, certainly believes in all sorts of radical confrontation, but conspiracy is not really its game. If anything, it is an organization whose members shy away from organization...
Browsing through the stacks of cards and telegrams that poured in from round the world, Harry S Truman quietly passed his 84th birthday at home with Bess in Independence...
...rare occasions when writer Truman Capote agrees to submit to a television interview, it is usually because he has something that he wants to say. Last week, when he appeared (for the first time) on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, he wasted little time in getting to the point. "I have a theory," announced the author of In Cold Blood, "about the murder of Martin Luther King...
...protesters. There were numerous student rallies on campus, one of which led to a brief but violent clash with police that contributed eleven more injuries to the week's total. Both the Spectator and the moderate student government called for resignations of Kirk and Provost David Truman and joined S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which he was put on disciplinary probation), and recently returned from a three-week visit to Communist Cuba...