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...Massachusetts legislature was persuaded to convert the Springfield Technical Institute, a vocational school, into a state-run operation. The institute acquired instant academe by moving its facilities to some of the armory's 19th century buildings. The campus now includes parade grounds and handsome fences wrought from melted cannon poured into an artistic motif of pikes and halberds...
SACHS made an impassioned speech in favor of his resolution, and later echoed even more passionately his earlier charges of "conspiracy." He protested the "ungentlemanly" hissing from the audience, and to emphasize his disapproval, stormed out of the meeting. Fairbank commented, "it seems that Milton got a bit wrought...
...other activists agree with him. One of them said: "In the past it's been the Milton Sachses and those who signed the Tuxedo Statement who have spoken for Asian scholars. We're changing all that. We're showing that we can get 'wrought up' too, but in a new direction...
McGill points with particular pride to the changes which civil rights legislation and maturing black political power have wrought in the South. In the past six years alone, he points out, Georgia has freed herself of the blatantly undemocratic county-unit rule, has reapportioned her legislature, and has seen the voting rights act, in conjunction with voter registration projects, raise Negro voting levels throughout the state...
...does not? Obviously, what has been stopped may be started again, perhaps with greater intensity. It is difficult to see how Ho could accept that prospect with equanimity, in view of the destruction that has already been wrought. The Administration, in fact, is convinced that U.S. airpower has mauled the enemy far more cruelly than has been suggested. Around Khe Sanh, eight-jet B-52s and dartlike fighter-bombers have cratered the nearby hills with 80,000 tons of bombs in the past two months-more than was dropped on Japan during the entire four years of World...