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More on Washington: Monday, May 3, the 7,500 arrested set new record: the most arrested in any single day in any single demonstration in American history. Through Wednesday, over ten thousand arrests, better than half as many persons arrested in all civil rights disorders between June 1963 (Cambridge, Md.) and June 1968 (following Martin Luther King’s assassination). . . . Forty per cent of those arrested in Monday-Tuesday attempts to close down city were under twenty years old. . . . Cost of peaceful April 24 march was over half a million bucks. D.C. police, Justice Dept., Army haven’t been able as yet to come up with figure on cost of policing capital next ten days. . . . Georgetown U. where many of Mayday tribe took refuge after being thrown out of West Potomac Park reports its $5,000 wooden running track destroyed, broken up and used to support canvas tents. . . . Among the arrested, Dr. Benjamin Spock, who tried to lead march on Pentagon Monday morning (where was Norman Mailer?), and who remarked of Redskins’ practice field, where he was held: “Calling this a concentration camp would be a very apt description. We have been thrown in here illegally and ruthlessly.” . . . Judge Charles Halleck (son of the Charlie Halleck of the Ev and Charlie show), who’s gotten a reputation for leniency with young offenders in Washington, anything but. He set bail of $250 for out-of-towners, wouldn’t release local youths unless their parents came down and signed for them. . . . Sen. Fulbright, provoked by demonstrators who insisted on attending meeting of his Foreign Relations Committee, finally shouted at them: “If you were in an authoritarian country you’d all be in jail.” . . . Pete Seeger refused to sing “Give Peace a Chance”: “There’s no time for that.” Instead launched into “Last Train to Nuremberg.” . . . Also out parading, very conspicuously, Women’s Lib, with its chants: “Ho, ho, Madame Binh! The NLF is gonna win,” and “5, 6, 7, 8, we don’t want a sexist state.”

Three branches of Bank of America bombed again last week, making it the single most bombed organization in America. . . . Kent State administrators, one year later, report a 47.7 per cent decrease in applications for admissions. . . . Most surprised saint in the calendar St. Maximilian, coopted by radical RCs who identify him as “a young Roman Catholic draftee who refused to be conscripted and was condemned to death.”

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More on Washington: Monday, May 3, the 7,500 arrested set new record: the most arrested in any single day in any single demonstration in American history. Through Wednesday, over ten thousand arrests, better than half as many persons arrested in all civil rights disorders between June 1963 (Cambridge, Md.) and June 1968 (following Martin Luther King’s assassination). . . . Forty per cent of those arrested in Monday-Tuesday attempts to close down city were under twenty years old. . . . Cost of peaceful April 24 march was over half a million bucks. D.C. police, Justice Dept., Army haven’t been able as yet to come up with figure on cost of policing capital next ten days. . . . Georgetown U. where many of Mayday tribe took refuge after being thrown out of West Potomac Park reports its $5,000 wooden running track destroyed, broken up and used to support canvas tents. . . . Among the arrested, Dr. Benjamin Spock, who tried to lead march on Pentagon Monday morning (where was Norman Mailer?), and who remarked of Redskins’ practice field, where he was held: “Calling this a concentration camp would be a very apt description. We have been thrown in here illegally and ruthlessly.” . . . Judge Charles Halleck (son of the Charlie Halleck of the Ev and Charlie show), who’s gotten a reputation for leniency with young offenders in Washington, anything but. He set bail of $250 for out-of-towners, wouldn’t release local youths unless their parents came down and signed for them. . . . Sen. Fulbright, provoked by demonstrators who insisted on attending meeting of his Foreign Relations Committee, finally shouted at them: “If you were in an authoritarian country you’d all be in jail.” . . . Pete Seeger refused to sing “Give Peace a Chance”: “There’s no time for that.” Instead launched into “Last Train to Nuremberg.” . . . Also out parading, very conspicuously, Women’s Lib, with its chants: “Ho, ho, Madame Binh! The NLF is gonna win,” and “5, 6, 7, 8, we don’t want a sexist state.”

Three branches of Bank of America bombed again last week, making it the single most bombed organization in America. . . . Kent State administrators, one year later, report a 47.7 per cent decrease in applications for admissions. . . . Most surprised saint in the calendar St. Maximilian, coopted by radical RCs who identify him as “a young Roman Catholic draftee who refused to be conscripted and was condemned to death.”