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Goldwater himself emceed the program, posed for pictures with Romney, and generally indicated enough forgiveness to support Romney if nominated. But questioners in the audience wanted to know about 1964. Romney, who was running for re-election as Governor in 1964, gave the explanation that most politicians understand: "We did in Michigan," he said, "what we thought contributed the most to the Republican Party in the state." Some of his listeners booed. Goldwater observed that national unity rather than a spirit of revenge must prevail, that he could find little to disagree with in Romney's speech. Then, with...
...unsuccessfully to soften the French position, but they failed. Flying to London for three days of talks with Prime Minister Wilson, West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger offered little solace. "It would be no use banging the table," he said. "Anyone who knows President de Gaulle will understand that this would produce the opposite effect. The only way is to try to convince the French by intellectual arguments, and hope that the overwhelming weight of European public opinion will make them change their position...
Monro's warning led many people to predict that the Faculty would do more than put the most deeply involved demonstrators on probation. That the Faculty opted for a moderate punishment is ample evidence that a concerted effort was made to understand the exacerbated felings of the anti-war student bloc at Harvard...
...probably right. Yet the Faculty, while it punished him, seems to understand his anger. At Tuesday's special meeting, Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, proposed--to loud applause--a student-Faculty-Administration Committee to deal with the issues that concern the demonstrators. Yesterday, President Pusey said that he felt the Faculty had committed itself to set up such a committee. It will probe, if Hoffmann's plans are adopted, campus recruitment, the University and the war, and forms of off-campus anti-war protest...
...crystal. He does not try to bomb the reader out of his mind, nor is he out to revolutionize his conscience. Rather, he tells a story with grace and wit, taking the common-or universal-experiences of life as the basis for a work that readers not only can understand but can use to understand each other...