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...illusory. Poverty programs, free universities and Camelot gave way to Kent State, Cambodia and urban terrorism. The toll of death and deterioration set in: The Kennedys, King, Dak To, Khe Sanh, Watergate. The clenched fist replaced the V sign as idealists turned cynical. Dylan and his followers withdrew into a more personal and private world. After a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan moved to his home in Woodstock, N.Y., and switched from participant to observer to chronicle the halcyon days of "the movement" in songs like Time Passes Slowly...
...Preparatory School and directly entered George Washington University Law School, "but I couldn't understand anything they were talking about so I quit." He worked at a newsstand for a year, then tried Georgetown University Law School, but the Latin legal terminology threw him, and he once more withdrew to sell newspapers. After his itinerant family returned to the road, Sirica decided that "unless I got an education, this kind of life would stick with me forever." He enrolled once again at Georgetown, and this time stuck with...
Acerbic Views. Berrigan's speech was still causing trouble last week. The American Jewish Congress protested plans to give Berrigan the Gandhi Peace Prize next month. And the Rev. Donald Harrington of the Community Church of New York withdrew from the presentation. Berrigan "has ceased to be a witness for peace," Harrington said. "His speech was not a prophetic utterance, only an inflammatory...
...Allende nationalized U.S. business, the United States adopted a hard-line policy and cut off all credit from the Agency for International Development and the Export-Import Bank (Eximbank), as well as from U.S.-controlled international organizations, the World Bank and International Development Bank. As soon as these institutions withdrew their support for the Chilean economy, private U.S. and European banks withdrew credit for the short and medium-term loans which are necessary to normal import-export transactions...
...Harvard Law Forum originally invited Shockley and Innis to debate here October 26. The Forum later withdrew the invitation under pressure from members of the Law School Faculty and the Harvard Black Students Association...